Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3084 - The Scott Adams School 01⧸30⧸26

00:00:00.000 all right let's go good morning gunner good morning montreal bookish the friends welcome

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00:00:17.280 let's kick it off youtube is going okay awesome thanks guys welcome in here we go

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00:00:42.740 sometimes the news is just fun sometimes it's horrible disasters today a few horrible disasters

00:00:51.740 but they're small ones mostly it's just fun so you know what to do if you want to have the maximum

00:01:00.380 enjoyment of this periscope it doesn't take much very little on your part actually to have the peak

00:01:07.880 experience of your day which will make all the rest of the day amazing all you need is a cup of

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00:01:55.280 flask canteen grail or a vessel of any kind done now that's what i call responsive to the audience

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00:02:04.660 what was that erica this one was from episode 662 and let me see if i could tell you so i love this

00:02:15.720 because back in the day we would all just shout out different containers and be like mason jar

00:02:22.520 you know a boot and he would just try to like throw them in there it was so fun so that one we added

00:02:28.720 a grail um you guys i'll get the date later it doesn't say right here but it's 662 is the episode

00:02:35.360 on youtube welcome you guys we have uh some special guests today along with myself i'm erica

00:02:41.880 and we have uh beautiful marcella and we have sexy sergio we have uh again dapper almost like tapper

00:02:52.660 owen gregorian good morning and we have our beloved shelly and um we asked shelly to bring

00:03:00.020 a special guest with her who um she's going to introduce properly but he's a great friend of scott's

00:03:06.640 and really uh moved me at scott's memorial service which is what we're going to talk about today and i

00:03:13.480 thought who better because we we don't get to know so much about scott's personal life like we think

00:03:20.300 we know everything you guys we don't know anything so quinn is going to help shed light but first let

00:03:26.200 me introduce shelly and then she'll take it from there hi everybody um yes that's quinn i um quinn's

00:03:35.800 been a longtime friend of scott's through pretty much you know all the time i've been with him um and

00:03:44.120 quinn's been a family friend so we're going to definitely um want to ask him some questions i'm sure

00:03:52.000 everybody will have some questions for him but um yeah i just wanted i thought it would be a good time

00:03:58.060 just for us to chat about you know the day um what it was like what scott wanted um so i think erica i think

00:04:06.160 you can kind of kick it off and let's let's talk about it okay so i you know i have to say the

00:04:15.020 things that struck me i was very impressed by the amount of security might i add we all felt safe that

00:04:22.900 was very an interesting surprise there was lots of security there guys um lots of that was interesting

00:04:29.600 as you say the security because you know of course i wanted to make sure it was safe um for the family

00:04:36.060 and but what an interesting dynamic of working with the local pd and the security and just how

00:04:45.000 that all works because you know i've never experienced that before so it was very interesting

00:04:49.920 but they worked well i had a great great security team it went very smoothly so thanks i'll say yeah

00:04:57.040 yeah and you know what it's like it was nice that you even thought that through because that's like

00:05:02.540 the world we're in now guys right so it's like okay you know you got to keep everyone safe you never

00:05:07.700 know um and and i thought that was impressive and thoughtful um it was interesting too to get there

00:05:18.760 i mean i didn't know what to expect like how many people it was intimate you guys it was intimate

00:05:24.180 and it made it just feel like you really got to know people even before the service started because

00:05:31.900 everybody was so friendly and talking and mingling and you know quinn came up to me and i said oh wait

00:05:38.460 i know you i'm like are you a neighbor i'm like weren't you playing ping pong with scott in the man

00:05:43.200 cave the one day and he's like yes and i said oh my god so some of you on local scott would just

00:05:48.620 um turn on the camera sometimes just to hang out with us like he loved us as much as we love him

00:05:54.400 and so it just seemed like a miracle that day there was scott like having this medical rebound

00:06:01.020 and playing ping pong and that was with quinn um quinn right like that that was a crazy day right

00:06:10.260 it was and and i'll kind of back up and thank you guys for for letting me be here and talk about it

00:06:16.080 was a good day and you know credit credit to shelly i know you guys all saw it mentioned it but

00:06:23.380 there was so much going on for her and her ability to mourn and organize was just it was unfair to be

00:06:31.600 honest i mean at the level of what she was trying to accomplish for everybody so big big shout out to

00:06:36.980 her for that because uh she she needed it but she also built her skill stack she's an event planner

00:06:42.780 knows how to arrange security audio so uh she's better for it but it was a pretty impressive what

00:06:49.360 she achieved but yes it the ping pong tennis scott was very competitive as as you guys uh probably saw

00:06:56.220 through the things because i will tell you what we see online is as much scott as anything there's a

00:07:02.700 deeper person behind it but he was very transparent so you did get to see who the real real man was uh

00:07:09.300 there was just things that he cared about that he didn't talk about and that was the kids as i

00:07:13.980 mentioned at the at the service but yeah ping pong it was amazing because he went on their hormone

00:07:18.820 blockers because before that he's in a wheelchair can't do anything i see him and then a week later

00:07:26.860 two weeks later he's beat me in ping pong and i made comment everybody you know 68 year old man

00:07:32.680 cancer meds pain meds and i'm still losing you know three out of five matches to him so

00:07:39.000 um he was he never never he was always competitive so that's where we knew quinn from when i when i saw

00:07:46.740 quinn i'm like oh yeah yeah yeah so um but it was everybody was really sweet i was looking for

00:07:53.340 shelly i knew she was going to be busy but shelly i couldn't wait to see you in person

00:07:57.020 and you guys not to embarrass you shelly but shelly is first of all beautiful inside and out

00:08:06.260 you looked gorgeous you definitely i know a lot was going on with the audio visual stuff but

00:08:12.900 we're very composed and pulled together and you guys she's just so cute too she's like petite and

00:08:21.660 cute and like just a good hugger and felt made me feel very welcomed and the other simultaneous

00:08:28.600 sippers that were there with us and um so i just appreciated that like i felt like i've known you

00:08:35.940 forever and you guys uh marcella and sergio and owen didn't you feel like that too when you met shelly

00:08:43.500 absolutely yeah she was like um you know the feeling you get is um i thought it would be awkward

00:08:51.340 and like there's these famous people shelly's like this this big bigger than life person or something

00:08:57.560 but everybody was so like family everybody was so nice you know and um pat actually shelly's husband

00:09:07.500 is the first one that came up to us and he hugged us and i was like who are you you're hugging me

00:09:13.720 and then he explained it was him and um i just you know i i don't know if owen had the same experience

00:09:20.820 or sergio but i i felt very um and i didn't feel nervous anymore after i met them yeah definitely i mean

00:09:30.460 i i think it was it was very welcoming very um you know it was it was an inspiring service too and

00:09:37.420 um i wasn't really sure what to expect like how solemn it would be or you know what the vibe would

00:09:43.820 be um and certainly there was some sadness you know when it was quiet before we started and things

00:09:48.840 like that but really as soon as the speakers started it was like you know we start off with trump

00:09:54.800 talking about how you know in sort of a funny way how uh scott had been loyal from day one and things

00:10:00.760 like that um and you know of course greg is the mc kept it kind of humorous and everybody was just

00:10:08.260 talking about all the positive things about scott and all the things he taught us and it was just

00:10:12.220 amazing to me it was like i i posted online i thought it was the most useful service of its kind

00:10:17.260 in history like i you could just implement what you heard on that one live stream and you'd have a

00:10:21.800 successful life like it was amazing to me he um made a micro lesson of uh his um you know last

00:10:30.860 funeral memorial that's so so scott i like what you said about the security erica because um when i

00:10:39.040 first got there my first impression was like wow this is serious right this is big time and um

00:10:45.820 and i was like uh i was i was i was the only one cutting uh the only man with a with a man

00:10:52.020 purse basically and i was worried about being you know but it was fine quinn you you you were like

00:10:58.520 such a light you know a sun uh to me you know when you came to me and and and say hello and i was like

00:11:05.200 wow people know me and uh you were amazing and and and and uh what i want to say the most is that um

00:11:12.400 when i say like i don't want to be divisive when i say you know some of us do pre-shows and some of

00:11:21.360 us didn't you know it was just like uh when i said that it was just because when i got to the house i

00:11:27.760 felt like i knew the house already right and uh and i was like oh let me give you a tour and it was

00:11:33.600 great that i got the tour but it felt like like many here on the show on youtube everywhere x not just

00:11:40.500 locals have met scott deeply so um i have no nothing else to say about that so that was wonderful

00:11:49.160 thank you what i was gonna add is oh my god quinn you did such a great job because there's all these

00:11:56.780 professionals like gutfeld and mike cernovich and michael malice and ultra kern and then here you are

00:12:05.920 you are gonna give the speech and so was shelly and so i i'm really um in awe of of you know the fact

00:12:15.800 that you even though through the morning and grief you still did it like an amazing job you did you

00:12:23.240 really did thank you he gave us plenty of time to prep the the good part was is you know it wasn't

00:12:29.960 sudden so there was plenty of time with him leading up to it so there was those emotional times with

00:12:34.960 them but you had that mental buildup of strength to to get there but yeah a lot of support so thank

00:12:42.420 you oh yeah celebrity wise i saw one of the strongest men um i ever met why are you laughing

00:12:51.520 marcelo but you know i i was trying to find a place where nobody could see me right so i went to this

00:12:57.460 the side which shelly put us in a in an area where it was easy to access the microphone and all that

00:13:03.620 for the speakers right so i sat all the way in the back and on the other side i saw this i'm gonna

00:13:07.880 say who he was you know and he was sitting there and um and seeing um a strong man suffer like that

00:13:17.140 in silent uh without tears or anything oh when do you see that moment too like uh that was really

00:13:26.020 got to me when i saw that and that's when i understood that it was nothing ordinary it was uh historic

00:13:32.380 yeah i think so i mean scott just meant so much to all of us and you know we've talked about this

00:13:39.980 before but i think it was just like he was everybody's best friend and you know he i think

00:13:46.140 set that up in the way he did his show where he just created this bonding experience where it was

00:13:51.700 like sitting down with your best friend and talking about the news over coffee every single day for 10

00:13:55.900 years and it's kind of like how could you not think that he was like one of your closest friends if

00:14:01.100 you if you're one of the people that was there for 10 years or even less but you know sitting down

00:14:05.780 every day talking over coffee it's just like this intimate experience it's kind of really unique

00:14:10.040 it's not like any other podcast or show um and it just really feels like you're really getting to

00:14:15.380 know this guy he talks about all his problems and vulnerabilities and um how he's feeling about

00:14:20.360 things and it was just um amazing and i think he just developed this really close relationship with

00:14:27.080 everybody he was dealing with also when you look at the range of speakers you know i shelly i love

00:14:35.200 i love that we were like all sitting in that one section actually because we like we're all like

00:14:42.900 sort of the same mindset over there and like we know who scott's you know podcast friends were and

00:14:48.740 mentors were and so it was like we could all like we were probably laughing so hard at times when no one

00:14:55.740 else got the joke and so that felt so good to just know like okay i'm not the only one that thought

00:15:01.040 that was funny or whatever like the little inside jokes but to see the range of speakers and how

00:15:07.160 emotionally touched they all were like for example when naval came on toward the end you know if if

00:15:15.520 somebody doesn't know naval like he he's scott's smartest friend scott would say he's the smartest

00:15:22.360 person i know and then when naval spoke beautifully of course and when he said that scott was one of his

00:15:28.860 mentors like i almost just lost it i was just like wow scott's one of his mentors you know and then you

00:15:36.520 have my friend michael malice okay so we're texting a few days before and he sends me a text and he says

00:15:46.540 i just purchased a dilbert mask from the 90s off of ebay and he's like do you approve and i said oh my god are

00:15:56.340 you gonna wear it and he's like if you approve i'm like i totally approve like scott would totally

00:16:00.820 approve like yeah do it he's like i hope it gets here because monday's a holiday and you know and

00:16:06.360 then i've got to travel and this and that so but it was so funny because he was just like i really think

00:16:11.820 scott would love it and you know and i think that you know everybody there that knows scott would get

00:16:17.600 the joke and i said for sure but i'll tell you he he wanted me to introduce him to greg gutfeld

00:16:23.780 and to dr drew and everybody and i said oh how do you want me to do that and he said

00:16:28.900 you know just take me by the arm and walk me up because i'll have the mask on and they won't know

00:16:35.100 who i am and he said you know just say hey greg i want you to meet uh my friend dilbert and then

00:16:42.300 you know he's like and i'm gonna have like this little whiteboard and i have all these jokes written

00:16:46.240 out and i was just like oh my god so it was cute of course when michael walked in and i brought him

00:16:51.300 over everybody was just like hey malice before he even got up there but he did put it on to come up

00:16:57.240 for his speech and he you know he really wanted to honor scott and then so michael malice is another

00:17:04.160 brilliant brilliant mind with an amazing smart sense of humor and like he said you know when scott

00:17:11.400 adams validates you and says like you know follow this guy's podcast or he's really funny like it really

00:17:17.000 he really meant something and so you know and then you have like a another more serious

00:17:24.420 total admirer of scott like in joshua lysac or in jack posobic and then mike cernovich who

00:17:33.600 scott credits with launching his career onto the twitter platform because he said i wouldn't have had

00:17:41.080 that validation without mike um mike's come into his own and and the death of scott really has affected

00:17:49.860 him to the point where he said if i cry right now i don't care you know it's it's important and

00:17:55.480 that's what really struck me so i basically sobbed like a baby the whole time like if anyone's voice

00:18:02.760 cracked it was over for me i had like a wad of tissues up to my face but um i think that that was

00:18:09.380 amazing and quinn everything you said about the family and the kids i don't want to monopolize

00:18:14.120 i'm just trying to paint a picture um was so meaningful because scott was very private about

00:18:20.260 his family which is perfect but the kids love him so much and um i just appreciated you like

00:18:29.540 letting us all in on that for the live stream um i'm gonna be quiet for a minute sorry thanks

00:18:35.360 no no and thank you again just one for for the audience is his loyalty and belonging in that

00:18:44.120 family but once scott's in your corner he's in your corner the loyalty the protection and

00:18:51.160 obviously the kids growing up because they were i don't know shelly savannah maybe six eight i don't

00:18:57.100 know how old they were at the time when and then justin so we've got a daughter savannah's age and

00:19:01.840 son justin's and that's we saw scott and shelly every weekend at the soccer games or the volleyball

00:19:07.500 tournaments and all that kind of stuff for the hangout but he wanted the best for them and i mean

00:19:12.340 a lot of his focus it was there was always them in his mind regardless of what he was doing and

00:19:18.860 again the behind the scenes you saw that more than he did it here and talked about him but

00:19:23.140 again you saw with justin also he took on china so uh he didn't think small that's for sure so

00:19:29.360 uh he loved those kids dearly yeah go ahead go ahead oh i i had a question for quinn uh uh because

00:19:39.040 quinn you showed me the man cave you gave me that tour of the man cave which i appreciate you saw me

00:19:44.680 you saw me mopey on the corner there you came over and you said okay and you sat down and said i want to

00:19:51.940 show you something and you took me over there and and that was the most meaningful thing that it

00:19:56.860 happened to me that day um the the the way you took me there and you showed me that um that the

00:20:03.600 the dealbert cartoon that he drew on the wall where there was um there was a hole and um it was

00:20:11.440 punched through so you you thought you showed me that and uh and i actually i didn't take a photo

00:20:16.360 i froze right there then i actually can you please take that photo and i had running around the house

00:20:21.660 taking photos of everything until like she finally sent it to me the right one i was like oh i'm so

00:20:27.540 richelle i'm wasting you so much time but uh quinn uh tell me any more i don't want to ask you how

00:20:33.960 the hole was made because that might be personal but any any other um stories that you would like to

00:20:40.720 share that you didn't you didn't share on the on the on the on the big service i know and so

00:20:46.960 in the original garage and again scott had a nice house but he would never lavish never anything so

00:20:54.460 it's a drywall garage and he built it up over time but and shelly i don't remember but there was a dent

00:20:59.400 in the drywall and so he drew a big dillbert character underneath punching up like he was hitting

00:21:05.200 a hole in the wall and i over the time scott would use that as i'm not changing that dent or because he

00:21:11.540 wanted to impact the world he wanted to dent the universe was his kind of concept and that was his

00:21:17.280 reminder and as he moved in the garage but i think one of the things and i haven't heard it talked

00:21:21.620 about and i'd love your guys take on it but as he talks about story arcs and act one act two of trump

00:21:27.880 but he went through that thing as i was preparing for the memorial i was thinking about that as scott's

00:21:33.520 life little kid from the middle of nowhere new york town moves to the big city makes it big

00:21:39.340 gets canceled how does the hero recover from that story and then he explodes and goes private and

00:21:46.940 says now my creativity is i'm unhandcuffed here i go it makes a huge thing and a huge recovery and

00:21:54.800 then obviously the final act of being raw and transparent on dying and public every day

00:22:03.120 here i am and here i'm dead so it's just amazing go ahead sorry sir no sorry i'm interrupting you

00:22:11.540 sorry i do that all the time sorry approach the that's the only dillbert cartoon with a mouth too

00:22:16.600 um one of kimberly actually the one to say like sir you that's the only one she's he's got his mouth

00:22:21.880 open and uh he has no mouth in any other dillberts so um you know if somebody wanted to buy that

00:22:29.020 cartoon you need to buy the house basically right so that was the because that's a collectible that's

00:22:35.000 the only one i've seen like that so and again i looked at that a million times sergio never paid

00:22:41.460 attention to the mouth or no mouth i mean i just never so thank you i'll have to go look at that again

00:22:47.660 but yeah but no just at that story arc and so i'll let you guys go ahead but uh just i definitely think

00:22:55.400 it was that kind of story arc the hero's journey um you know he he had that call to adventure when

00:23:01.500 he left to come to california and he's talked about that as a way of managing energy but just kind of

00:23:06.620 you know getting out of his small town um having his you know sort of misadventures i guess in his

00:23:12.540 corporate life um and how that kind of spawned the whole dillbert thing and then that was obviously a

00:23:18.520 huge part of his life for for a very long time and um you know then he he sort of probably

00:23:25.220 accidentally got into politics with trump you know i don't i i don't think when he wrote that

00:23:30.980 article he thought it was going to have anywhere near the impact that it did but it kind of forced

00:23:35.980 him public about that in a way he probably didn't even intend um i don't even know if he was a trump

00:23:41.520 supporter at that point i think he was just calling what calling it how he saw it but then you know the

00:23:47.060 the way our political field is so polarized it was almost like he he didn't have a choice like

00:23:53.640 he'd either have to recant which he wasn't going to do or he had to just embrace it and so he embraced

00:23:59.260 it and um you know i i think as a person who did watch him back back for the periscope days um you

00:24:07.100 know he really did i think change a lot of his views or you know evolve as we watched and um you know

00:24:14.080 early early on it was kind of like every conspiracy theory that would come up in the news he'd be like

00:24:18.400 oh no that's not that you know that's not real you know he would always be poo-pooing it and saying

00:24:24.780 that's not a thing and and later on he was kind of the opposite he was like you know what i think this

00:24:30.480 is all real and um you know never never the full everything but you know he kind of i think at least

00:24:35.960 at one point commented even on the joe rogan thing when he said sort of the same thing where he's

00:24:39.700 like at this point i might even believe we didn't go to the moon like i don't know um and uh so it was

00:24:46.060 just amazing to watch as he changed and um certainly the cancellation i think had a big impact on him

00:24:53.140 but he bounced back very quickly i remember him talking about that day saying i feel fine um and so

00:25:00.660 he certainly took it in stride and but i think it was a traumatic experience to an extent and um

00:25:06.600 certainly it would have to be to say okay all of a sudden my big income stream is gone from dilbert

00:25:11.440 and i'm not published anymore and i gotta figure out what to do next and but he very quickly bounced

00:25:16.420 back i think he really appreciated all the support he got from locals through that experience

00:25:20.700 um and i as far as i can tell he was very successful with his you know dilbert subscriptions

00:25:26.280 and dilbert reborn and the calendars and and everything else that he did after that so um

00:25:32.080 certainly i i see that whole story arc you're talking about i think it was pretty amazing to watch

00:25:36.580 yeah oh and and yes you put scott on prisoner island and he would talk about that i mean for

00:25:42.920 years it was amazing but he just had mental muscle if you put him in a box he's gonna get out and he's

00:25:49.480 gonna come out i mean it just it was uh very impressive to be around and i saw behind the scenes as

00:25:55.960 you guys were coming online he told me oh i've got people behind the scenes sending me news articles or

00:26:01.020 way back when with cernovich and getting on x and if i get a million followers i'm gonna be able to

00:26:07.600 rule the world kind of thing it just it was never small with scott uh in terms of just what he thought

00:26:14.860 potential was and there was one and who knows i don't know what episode but where he just talks at

00:26:20.780 the beginning that the system is just trying that's it system is just trying and putting yourself out

00:26:27.280 there and he was example of it for for us in a lot of ways but also just a good friend loyal i mean

00:26:34.200 very trustworthy quinn i love that you know all of the uh ins and outs of his show and everything to

00:26:40.960 that like really meant a lot to us because you had both sides of it going like the personal life

00:26:47.240 and the friendship and then you really understood you know the simultaneous zippers and the live stream

00:26:54.780 and the nuance and you just really brought them both together and i i feel like i feel like everybody

00:27:02.040 on this live stream right now um was very well representative at represented and remembered and

00:27:09.740 um shelly your friend carrie like so cute at the house like we did the simultaneous sip together like we

00:27:16.760 you know we just like launched into it and i love how many of his friends you know really knew what he

00:27:23.900 was doing like genuinely that was cool yes there's something else i wanted to talk about too i know

00:27:30.560 um my speech was mostly about how we met because i felt like that's probably you know how how did i

00:27:38.940 come into his life i think a lot of people didn't know um just one day i appeared next to him in the

00:27:46.060 live stream and you know everybody's like who is that uh he quickly introduced me and so

00:27:53.580 therefore not a lot of people knew like the backstory so i felt that was the probably the

00:27:59.660 most important thing to talk about just because i wanted to you know he kept us private and you know

00:28:05.980 there was a reason for that and um but there was so much more i wanted to say i mean just there there

00:28:14.140 is so much more and i hope i can you know gradually share this with you but since we have quinn on here

00:28:19.900 um one piece that you do know about scott is just how generous he is um especially with his time i

00:28:28.860 mean this is the part that you guys know because he would spend hours with you i mean it could have

00:28:35.340 been 50 people and he told me this like oh i'm gonna do you know this and there's probably only gonna

00:28:41.340 be 50 people on but those 50 people need me and i'm gonna do it and so his time that he spent just

00:28:50.860 just how generous he was with this time um but also he was very generous in other ways and that's

00:28:58.940 probably part of you know just you probably can imagine him being generous in other ways but he was

00:29:07.580 overly generous um you know there was i guess there's a quote i was going to read a quote that

00:29:15.900 i think he said let me see if i can find this um he's quoting something like this there's not

00:29:23.500 no such thing as a small act of kindness every act creates a ripple with no logical end this reflects

00:29:33.420 the idea of even the basic generosity and that basic generosity matters so that's how he lived his life

00:29:43.180 i mean he really lived his life to give to others and whether it was financially um i mean he didn't

00:29:51.260 want anything from he he trying to convince him to spend money on himself was just like what i'm not

00:29:58.860 going to pay that for that what are you talking about i'm like but you're willing to tip you know

00:30:05.580 all the servers crazy amounts of money you're you know you're willing to help you know anybody in need

00:30:13.100 and i i i know um most of you probably don't know this but he was very generous to his family

00:30:21.900 to his friends anyone in need he had just this uh every year he would towards the end of the year

00:30:30.380 christmas time he would just pick someone someone that you know he's run across that he thought maybe

00:30:38.700 you know what i five thousand dollars you know whatever the amount is it could probably help their

00:30:44.860 christmas you know or his employees he overpaid all of his employees um he always gave bonuses you know

00:30:55.580 he he opened two restaurants um which you know the first restaurant was successful um but he just poured

00:31:03.500 his money into it and it really wasn't you know he wasn't making money from it he was just giving back

00:31:10.380 and i just think that um he did this in so many ways and i mean especially for me when we he's a smart

00:31:21.340 guy every relationship he was in he did make sure an agreement was signed it's not a stupid guy um but

00:31:31.020 with that you know he made sure the kids had college funds you know he made sure that he actually

00:31:38.940 he actually bought us a house definitely in walking distance just two streets over because he wanted

00:31:48.060 us close you know he's definitely a generous man in in in strangers in people he loved and i know quinn

00:31:56.300 maybe he could talk about this a little bit more but you know he wanted he wanted to start businesses

00:32:02.620 and quinn was one of them that uh he worked with with trying to start a business and

00:32:09.420 he and i want quinn to talk a little bit more about it but he would scott wasn't going to give

00:32:14.700 up i want i want quinn to be successful on this and you know maybe quinn you can chime in here on this

00:32:21.420 but um turn your mic and let's talk about that a little bit yeah i mean very generous indeed and without

00:32:29.820 wanting something in return and it was quiet you know that's always the best kind you know don't let your

00:32:35.580 left hand know what your right hand's doing when it comes to giving those kind of things so scott had

00:32:39.340 that mentality for sure and yet as we were going through kids events or whatever we're talking

00:32:45.420 about scheduling and calendar issues and we both had our tech issues so there were real fixes within

00:32:51.100 calendars but we so we said oh let's start and he was just blogging at the time and he goes okay well

00:32:56.780 i'll try and find some tech support so he blogs out we find uh incubator company out of australia and

00:33:03.100 they help us we started this little calendar tree thing for scheduling and that involved over the

00:33:09.820 years we're going okay that's there's no traction in calendaring at least it wasn't for us and then we

00:33:14.060 tried an approach app which was just geolocation sharing temporary as a business we're trying to do

00:33:20.220 that and then we did interface which was two-way uh video dialogue and it was supposed to be between

00:33:28.460 experts and so at the time and i want to say this is right about 2014 15 somewhere around there and scott

00:33:36.780 gets into the persuasion side of politics and then covet comes around and it's nobody's trusting the

00:33:44.220 experts well our app was purely expert to expert kind of thing so it was totally he was calling out

00:33:49.660 experts saying you're not there so that was just so we laughed i mean it was a lot if we didn't

00:33:55.020 achieve anything through it but you learned as you went and scott was committed to it for me personally

00:34:00.860 wanting to make it work and i don't know if it was you marcel or erica there was a something scott

00:34:06.700 would tell you and i know he's written about it is he can he could see the future like i can envision

00:34:11.900 2020 i can envision 2021 and then 2014 or right before he did the political thing i picture

00:34:19.900 something big next year in 2015 and we're hoping it's the little business that could it could get

00:34:25.020 it going and it was all the political his prediction on trump and that was the big thing he just knew it

00:34:31.420 was coming so uh but yes to shelley's point again did well and was very generous never on himself again

00:34:40.780 he'd buy one car he had a garage three car garage and it was full of stuff ping pong tables and stuff

00:34:46.860 no sports cars no flinch fancy anything so just a very humble guy at the end of the day that uh

00:34:53.420 obviously was very successful in pretty much everything he put his mind to uh when it came to business but

00:34:59.660 uh and also the the i want everyone to know that the all the kids were there um christina's two girls

00:35:10.540 and savannah and you know what i saw shelley was um christina's girls like run over to you and you know

00:35:17.820 like they clearly adore you too and i was like so heart warmed and i was just like this is like one big

00:35:25.580 you know blended family at the end of the day and like i'm gonna get choked up because i was just

00:35:30.540 like i could tell that they like love you and like they're comfortable in the house and like you know

00:35:35.820 everybody like scott really you guys scott really had so much love around him and we didn't know you

00:35:43.900 know the ins and outs of his every day and um a lot of people thought like scott was really lonely and

00:35:49.900 like you know it was just in this house by himself all the time he definitely was surrounded by so

00:35:55.820 much love and such a beautiful family and amazing amazing friends that i feel like listening at the

00:36:03.260 service also like to you quinn and um and john his tennis partner what he said about like if there was a

00:36:11.340 questionable point scott's like oh you take it you know whatever like it was just like this like big

00:36:16.860 loving dynamic and it made me feel just so happy and and warm and the house is full of love and um

00:36:26.780 i don't know it meant a lot to see the kids there and all of that too um don't forget shauna um

00:36:33.900 shelley's sister she was so funny she's like um because we made coffee at scott's coffee maker

00:36:42.700 and it didn't want to work for me and i think sergio had the same thing and i was like why is it not

00:36:48.780 working and she's like wait for it i think it's scott and i was like you know and we were standing in

00:36:55.740 front of it and we were like is it him that is like blocking it and then and then it took like maybe

00:37:02.940 longer than usual courage and um she made me laugh and then she's like okay now it'll work and it worked

00:37:12.060 and she was funny too because she's like i needed a stir and she's like oh i forgot to buy that but

00:37:18.940 here's the spoon don't tell anyone she's just amazing shauna was like so amazing and the most

00:37:25.340 amazing thing is that she knew us too and so did quinn and so did all his family they are very aware of the

00:37:35.660 beloveds they're aware of everybody in the chat um that's something that that uh shows the love um

00:37:44.060 they had for scott and still have and it's just so so warm but i i did want to bring up a question that

00:37:51.900 came up quinn in the um chat they wanted to get a little further about how you guys met how you and

00:37:58.940 scott met well it was through shelley again uh savannah and our daughter the same age and we met

00:38:07.340 they started dating or i don't i'm assuming you were dating shelley but came to one of the girls

00:38:12.220 soccer games and it was just after the match shelley introduced us and then you'd start seeing them at

00:38:17.740 the other games and then we just start hanging out from there and then we scott organized our i don't

00:38:23.900 know was it 35 and older soccer co-ed team and again at the time up say i'm 35 i don't dates are

00:38:31.340 exactly but scott was like 50 so he's like 14 years old or whatever and i'm thinking he's such

00:38:36.300 an old man we're there's no way this is going to work out but he was always fit always in shape you

00:38:42.940 know he played a lot of tennis and club went to the club and all that kind of stuff but so just over time

00:38:48.060 it was just that and then we just hang out we go to again he stayed at home if he wasn't at the gym or

00:38:53.580 somewhere so it was often at the house and it was taught me how to play tennis and he's just a good

00:38:58.860 instructor i think one of the things that he's so good at communicating he could break things down

00:39:03.980 even when it came to teaching how to play tennis and how to hold the racket and all that stuff

00:39:08.380 um but that was it's got to do any soccer coaching no he he wasn't one of the coaches we i did the

00:39:16.380 coaching side but no he never uh i don't recall him coaching either soccer or volleyball with the boys and

00:39:23.820 justin was the baseball team i've gotten a couple pictures i was going to share with shelley

00:39:28.380 yesterday i forgot shelley to show you the dodgers with justin and then the pink i don't know the

00:39:33.660 girl's team name but it was that it was from that meeting i think that's the book that they gave me

00:39:38.700 it's a little soccer ball photo book from the kids uh with savannah and them but i think i was

00:39:44.780 trying to look for the exact date of that game but it's not there just the year but uh but that's that's

00:39:50.300 it erica so yeah it was go ahead i was just wondering so in soccer did he win then because

00:39:57.580 you're like oh this old man and then like oh no we were a pretty decent team we had a good team

00:40:03.900 shelley and my wife pretty similar and then we had uh two other families and then uh they were there at

00:40:10.460 the service one family was and then another matt shocker who's a really good friend of scott's as well

00:40:16.700 very good soccer player i think he played in other leagues and things like that but yeah

00:40:20.620 we were we were a solid team until we went up with the 20 year old teams then we indoor soccer is a

00:40:26.700 lot harder than you think if your kids are playing and you're yelling at them to keep running and they

00:40:31.100 look tired go try it first and then you'll realize that it is very tiring so yeah i was just wondering

00:40:38.700 about him coaching because i remember him saying he was really good at soccer and i could imagine him

00:40:42.780 maybe being you know wanting to step in and show things to people and stuff but if you had good

00:40:47.100 coaches and other people that had a lot of talent i'm sure he probably would have been happy to sit

00:40:50.460 back and watch yeah oh he set up soccer for the kids in the backyard so he would he would teach them

00:40:57.340 on their you know he would use the kids as his teaching so yeah he definitely he definitely got them

00:41:04.620 out there in the backyard and hit the soccer ball i also want to add to that um i i'm obsessed with

00:41:13.020 savannah i love her and that's shelley's daughter and jacob he's so sweet that's shelley's uh shelley

00:41:21.420 that's savannah's husband they're newlyweds and um they were like even jacob was like oh yeah you know i i

00:41:28.060 see you guys on the live stream and you know everybody's aware of this part of scott's life and

00:41:34.780 you know so i can just tell you you guys like like he really loved all of us and and so after the

00:41:45.660 show sometimes i'll go back and like look at the comments on locals and peek at some of the comments

00:41:52.620 on youtube which i don't recommend but um you guys the locals you know we we just are we know

00:42:01.260 more about scott because of all the pre-shows the show the post show the man cave the two a days during

00:42:09.420 covid the hey i'm just turning my computer on and i'm gonna make soup today and you're in my kitchen

00:42:15.900 now now we have a cooking show or hey help me draw my dilbert comic like we the locals i i

00:42:22.460 highly recommend you guys like come over to the locals community it was like it was like only fans

00:42:28.460 it was the only yeah only fans with scott yeah and it was so intimate yeah yeah only scott and so we

00:42:36.460 you know we had so much um more of scott but when i read the comments on the locals live streams i like

00:42:46.140 you guys i love you guys so much it it's just such a an amazing group everybody's so loving and caring

00:42:53.900 like you really built this family and some of us have known each other here for 10 years and and then

00:43:01.660 you think of all the hours that you could log in a day with scott i mean some days i think i probably

00:43:06.700 spent five or six hours on a live stream with scott you know and that's it's a lot um so i just want

00:43:14.380 you guys to know how much scott like truly loves you guys and not that i didn't already love you but

00:43:20.380 i love you guys so much more just seeing what an amazing family this is i'm not gonna cry

00:43:27.980 um and also how much scott's family and friends love all of you guys too and um i wanted to say

00:43:37.180 that so remember you guys when scott was making his museum in the house the dilbert museum and he

00:43:43.340 would like show us like this was my desk and this was here and so savannah kind of finished that up and

00:43:49.660 she made the museum beautiful and so shelly took us up like in groups or whatever to just see it

00:43:56.620 because you can't put everybody in there at once and you know and i i loved seeing it and whatever

00:44:01.820 and then shelly's like okay it was like kind of like the podcasting group like the speakers that you

00:44:06.860 saw and his you know and the four of us um and so shelly just said do you guys want to see scott's

00:44:14.620 office because it wasn't open for people to walk in there and you know we were like yes yes yes and

00:44:19.340 when she opened the door and you just see his desk now i might cry that's like that shelly saw me that

00:44:28.700 hit me hard but that was like that's the museum to me like that was just like his energy and it's what

00:44:36.300 we looked at every day for all those hours and his his his blanket was folded and you know i had to

00:44:45.260 put my hand on the blanket it's so soft you guys i wish i could have given you like a cashmere or

00:44:50.700 angora blanket but it would have been so expensive um but it's so soft and and one thing you might not

00:44:56.940 know is there's a ton of room behind that desk like you know how scott would like push himself off and

00:45:01.820 like roll to the back to get something it's very big back there and um but i think we were all really

00:45:09.420 moved by that and shelly i just have to thank you because as emotional as it made me it was just

00:45:17.260 very special thank you sorry guys so just a little bit more about the locals i just since you're

00:45:25.500 you know talking about the locals i know scott did a lot of extra for the locals and we that is our plan

00:45:32.460 going forward um just bear with it bear with me right now but we hope to transition so that the

00:45:39.820 local group gets more time so i just want to let everybody know that you're not forgotten and we're

00:45:47.020 gonna try to i know we're doing the dilbert um comic strip there and we're taking you know kind of from

00:45:54.780 the beginning taking a week out of the first year and kind of moving on to uh through the years maybe

00:46:00.700 taking a week um for those locals and we'll continue to do more for the locals so going forward

00:46:08.540 and also that's what scott wanted you guys so we're not scott we're not trying to be scott nobody can be

00:46:15.260 scott the coffee with scott adams show lives on its own and scott had ideas of what he wanted to happen

00:46:26.300 after he wasn't here anymore that's what we're doing so it's not like just yeah we're working

00:46:31.900 it out and figuring it out but it's not like haphazard like he had ideas of what he wanted he

00:46:37.100 wanted us to remain a community and remain together have our simultaneous sip sometimes we have guests

00:46:44.700 we're you know but really locals he really wants you guys to stay together we want more people to come

00:46:52.540 over but yeah his micro lessons are going to be there they're not going to be like on youtube he

00:46:57.340 he really had a vision for it so i know it feels weird and it feels different and maybe not everybody's

00:47:03.580 going to like this and that's okay too maybe you just want to come in and have the simultaneous sip with

00:47:08.860 us and go about your day we would love that too or maybe some days feel better to you than others

00:47:14.220 but just know that we know that we're not scott and we're not trying to be but we um we've all

00:47:22.540 been students of his for a long time and have love and respect for him and are always going to try to

00:47:28.540 just do right by him so we hope you understand that yeah erica i have a couple of stories from the

00:47:35.420 the day um if you don't mind because we there was no coffee at the service right i don't know if it

00:47:45.820 was on purpose to get us like to crave it more i don't know if a scott planned at all like some kind

00:47:50.300 of uh you know elaborate scheme but i was like there has to be coffee right there was no coffee so we got

00:47:55.900 to the house i made a beeline for the coffee machine i started pushing the buttons like a smart man trying

00:48:02.860 to do it it wouldn't work jay plemons uh the best the akira of clips came over and plugged that in

00:48:11.660 he plugged that in and i was like wow okay this is scott doing all this right now right and then um but

00:48:18.620 then shauna i want to mention shauna she um also was like queen um approached me i was there moping and

00:48:25.660 she came over and said like let me give you a tour and uh and she took me over to the office and um

00:48:31.580 because i missed the the i missed the group tour so she took me there um and and it was an amazing

00:48:37.900 experience it was like the the holy land right there we felt something strong and then but then

00:48:45.820 owen and i went to see gary and roman and that was amazing and we took a lot of photos and i said

00:48:53.420 like i'm gonna make the girls so jealous you'll see and uh and owen he i never seen anybody handle

00:49:00.700 kittens that way amazing owen you want to tell us more about that because i'm learning how to handle

00:49:07.260 my cat only only if the locals chat inserts all of the inappropriate jokes about how owen handles

00:49:15.340 kittens okay then then let's go go i i i would what i would say you know i've had a number of cats over

00:49:24.860 the years our very first pet was a cat and that one was you know totally docile you could hold it any

00:49:31.420 kind kind of way you wanted to it would never get upset um it wasn't weird or demanding like a lot

00:49:37.500 of cats are but i've had a lot of the weird cats too that are very picky about you know they only

00:49:42.220 want to be held a certain way or they don't want to be held at all and so i've learned over the years

00:49:46.540 just how to do that and i would say gary and roman at least from my experience are the type that

00:49:52.140 you know they don't want you to just pick them up and hold them um they might want to get on your

00:49:57.340 lap or they might want to you know do it their their way but they seem to you know not necessarily

00:50:03.340 want to be held for a long time um so i i you know i i turned him over and held him upside down i think

00:50:09.820 you posted a photo of it but um you know that's that's one of the positions i learned with my one of

00:50:15.420 my cats that it's like he wouldn't let you hold him anyway except that if you if you put him upside

00:50:21.420 down with his tummy up and you held him securely then he would let you hold him that way and that's

00:50:25.500 that's what i was doing with gary so you know you know what i'm realizing is that i'm realizing that

00:50:30.540 the house the the scaraman's house i used to think that it was like this one man you know like the

00:50:35.500 wizard of boss by himself you know and now it's like it's the adams family really i'm thinking of uh

00:50:41.980 like the show the tv show with everybody there shelly you are like morticia you know or something i don't

00:50:47.020 know uh all of you guys are different characters uh queen you're like uh uncle fester i don't know

00:50:53.340 uh everybody somebody and it was so much fun to see that and it has you know in the house itself

00:50:59.580 it's like a crazy house i mean it's amazing i love it right the way the tennis court

00:51:07.420 is like like it's like a football field like that's how giant it is and the neighbors we had an oh yeah we

00:51:15.500 had a neighbor i want to reveal this um uh somebody asked owen for an order autograph no way right

00:51:22.540 yeah yeah one of the neighbors i asked owen for an autograph and the very first autograph

00:51:30.460 with the cats too and um and she's a neighbor that lives close by so i wanted to ask shelly uh how

00:51:36.940 is that living with neighbors or you know that well how was that for scott with every you know neighbors

00:51:43.260 snooping in and stuff you know it's like having a house tour every day how how do you deal with that

00:51:48.780 yeah you know the the community the neighborhood they treated him just like family and he had a

00:51:58.220 text chain with the whole neighborhood this is scott you know and he would when it was possible our

00:52:06.860 power was going to go out he's like i have backup generators if this happens i'm prepared i have

00:52:13.980 everything for you come over and he and you know he had he extended the invite for them to come over

00:52:20.860 any time if they ever needed anything um it was great and you know the neighbors didn't take advantage

00:52:28.060 of anything um they were great uh probably the neighbor you're talking about i don't know she's

00:52:34.940 she's baked us i don't know how many apple pies and chocolate chip cookies the last few weeks um

00:52:42.220 it amazing and she just we just kept returning the the pie plate and she just kept bringing them back

00:52:49.020 so the whole i know the whole whole neighborhood we just have a i mean he had a great uh group of

00:52:57.180 neighbors that were definitely um willing to help in any way and and he was the same he just

00:53:04.780 you know he invited him over and you know it was very close to them so he told stuck in that

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00:53:35.900 this about the text thread too and you know like if something weird was happening or you know a car

00:53:41.340 got broken into or whatever it was and i want to give a shout out so you guys you know how scott loves

00:53:46.700 halloween and he gives out the full-size candy bars oh or waters waters um shout out to any trick-or-treater

00:53:54.700 that went to his door because he has a very steep hill so they worked hard to get up that driveway to

00:54:00.700 get the candy so the reward was worth it it was interesting and savannah was every was there every

00:54:08.620 year with him and doing that so yeah it's very and uh we might have taken a few putts on the putting

00:54:15.420 green inside and that's definitely a wavy little green and uh we could see where scott had like a little

00:54:23.820 thing on the on the putting green to hold his phone upright so you know how he positioned the phone

00:54:29.500 and so we took a couple of putts and um i don't know like it was i keep saying like i i also felt

00:54:36.460 like i knew every inch of that house because we lived in it with him virtually for so many hours and

00:54:43.100 it was an amazing experience yeah um just a little bit about the house i think most of you know um we built

00:54:50.700 the house together and he wanted to build this dilbert house and he wanted to feature certain

00:54:59.500 things and so we did it together we didn't hire designers we didn't you know we had a contractor

00:55:07.260 of course um that led us to you know all the places to look for stuff but he wanted the kids to pick out

00:55:13.820 their tile and you know they got to i think i told most of you at the house he made sure the kids

00:55:22.300 bedrooms were exactly the same size exactly the same layout there was like you cannot make this

00:55:30.300 an inch bigger for the other kids so um he wanted to be fair and but they did they they got to pick

00:55:37.260 out their tile for their bathroom what they wanted to look like they got to pick out their design and he

00:55:42.700 let us pick out everything i think there was so scott's big thing for the house there's two things i

00:55:49.900 would say for the house that he were important to him one was the christmas tree closet so he

00:55:58.700 didn't want to have to take the the you know he had an artificial tree and he didn't want to have to

00:56:04.460 take the put the lights back on and put the ornaments back on he wanted a christmas tree closet that he could

00:56:10.780 just roll that christmas tree in so it had to have a big opening it had to you know it was a double

00:56:17.740 double door you had to make sure that that that was going to be able to go in it because he wasn't

00:56:22.620 going to go through the work of doing that every year so that was one of his things that he had i

00:56:27.180 mean of course a lot of things but then the other one was the tennis court he wanted an indoor tennis

00:56:33.500 court and mind you we're in a community we don't have an hoa but you know the neighbors have to approve

00:56:41.900 this and they're like this is going to be a big structure um so we had to go back and forth but he

00:56:50.380 made it happen but he asked me like what do you want like i mean this is for me uh i want the tennis

00:56:57.260 court i want to do something for you like what do you want i'm like i don't i i mean i just want some

00:57:04.220 palm trees around the pool or something i mean they're really really important to me um and what

00:57:12.780 was that that was the one thing that the city did not want to approve no scott he's decided that this

00:57:21.340 is going to happen and we we actually went in and we had to fight it and he just you know we're going

00:57:30.460 on and we're like of course we'll we'll change the paint color for you we will do this for you

00:57:35.900 we will you know move the house back you know whatever it is they want all the you know neighbors

00:57:41.580 wanted we'll do this we'll make sure that the tennis court has it does it looks like a house from the

00:57:47.900 outside has no windows so it's like a fake facade window because they don't want the light coming out

00:57:53.900 from the tennis lights um but when it came to he was you know we were coming in there he he just said

00:58:01.980 but enough's enough we're having palm trees shelley is giving her palm trees so so we have palm trees

00:58:10.460 um so he made that happen i did have a little room right by i don't know if you guys noticed that

00:58:17.740 a little spa room so we can have little girl days to get our nails done or get pedicures i had a

00:58:25.100 little pedicure spa along with the washing for the hair and we would do massages hang by the pool and

00:58:32.060 you know quinn can tell you missy you know we had spa days there so it was great so that was what

00:58:37.900 he did for me so

00:58:38.940 it's great and and and the tennis court is pretty incredible i mean it's like you'd never suspect it

00:58:47.740 walking up to the house you'd never suspect it being in the house like it just looks like a

00:58:52.700 relatively i mean it's a large house but not like mansion large you know it's not like one of those

00:58:57.660 things that impresses you as like wow this just goes on and on but then you go through this one

00:59:01.500 little door and all of a sudden it's like this big cavern opens and you have this full-size tennis

00:59:05.660 court it's just amazing yeah shelly house was built it look doesn't look as big from the front but

00:59:13.340 if you keep going it just keeps going and i don't even know if you guys went into the backyard there's

00:59:18.780 a huge backyard after the tennis court so it was a double lot and it just kept going so shelly your

00:59:27.260 sister don't tell on her but she was so fun and funny she took myself and marcella and

00:59:35.340 michael malice she's like you want to go in the master bedroom

00:59:42.540 we're like yeah let's go so we go in you know check it out then she's like but wait come on and

00:59:47.980 i'm like i know it's back here and so then there's like another room in the master and she opens the

00:59:54.460 curtains where there's a big glass window looking out onto the tennis court and you know i was like

01:00:01.020 there it is i've seen it on youtube but here it is so um and that's what you get his friday night

01:00:08.780 6 30 massage in there right yes you get his massage but the idea like his idea of that was he was hoping

01:00:18.620 that when the tournaments the tennis tournaments came to san jose locally that he can invite these

01:00:25.180 tennis pros to come stay and then you know he could watch their match and from the masters so

01:00:33.660 yeah that was his we we never did it we never offered um i think it was a little still a little

01:00:39.420 too far for them but in his mind i mean he actually do you guys remember when vivek was uh in the running

01:00:47.260 he said i think he's going to be speaking in san francisco i'm going to offer him to come here

01:00:52.140 and play tennis you know whatever but he i forget what happened that he didn't or vivek didn't come

01:00:57.660 or whatever but yeah like scott you know just had these like visions and worked around them and just

01:01:05.900 tried to install them and instill them everywhere and the other and yes and your sister also took

01:01:11.500 marcella and i to the back backyard and oh my gosh she was the bomb she gave us some fortune cookies

01:01:19.900 that she got from san francisco yeah i was like let's go love her i love that she did that for you guys

01:01:28.460 we did too we appreciated every second of the entire experience it's great we did um quinn i have a

01:01:37.260 question would you consider coming on with us from time to time sure i'm happy to accept the invite

01:01:46.300 as long as i can add value i'm happy to be here i think you do add value and i think we would all

01:01:53.420 love that and you give us like um another level of closeness to scott and to shelly and you obviously

01:02:01.980 know him very well and i think that's valuable to all of us don't you guys think so you guys

01:02:06.700 drop an emoji in the chat if you want to see quinn back with us i think that would be fun um to

01:02:13.580 everybody that's watching on other platforms please uh do consider joining scott's locals page i think

01:02:21.420 it's scottadams.locals.com something like that but i'll put it on twitter today so you guys everybody's

01:02:28.700 saying yes quinn there's a stream of emojis and yeses um so that's awesome and don't you guys love

01:02:35.260 that shelly was with us talking and sharing her stories it's so good shelly we love you so much i

01:02:42.540 i've just only seen all you guys we love you everybody just adores you and um you know i i know

01:02:50.940 you guys don't want this to end does anyone have any questions they want to drop in or do any of us

01:02:56.300 have anything you want to ask marcella sergio owen do you want to add anything i i could add a lot but

01:03:08.140 i don't want to get you a lot if we go over the time maybe maybe a random question did scott ever

01:03:13.660 hypnotize you i was gonna no and that's a great question because i did uh there were times when i we

01:03:21.740 talked about it for sure but uh i just yeah we just never did it but we talked about hypnotizing and

01:03:29.980 people he had hypnotized and things like that so there's there will be some confidential stuff that

01:03:34.220 i will never tell you guys so uh you can ask but i'll i'll do my best but there's still confidentiality

01:03:41.260 uh loyalty to scott that i i won't reveal things but uh but no to to answer your question no okay yeah i

01:03:48.860 just wonder because he you know he talked often about being a hypnotist but i didn't know if he

01:03:52.620 ever did actually hypnotize the people that were around him no but i i mean again i benefited so

01:03:59.180 much because behind the scenes as he was building this i saw the thought process like he'd have his

01:04:04.940 whiteboard and like a blog post that he's working on and you'd see behind the seat as it got developed

01:04:11.340 and then as he got into the podcasting again whiteboard notes when he was trying to do the movie

01:04:17.340 the museum used to be it's been a couple different things we can share later but sticky notes all on

01:04:23.340 the wall on the on his thoughts when he was trying to to get the movie back going but it was just fun

01:04:29.660 seeing how he planned for the show way back when and seeing how he put the pieces together practiced

01:04:35.500 on the whiteboard before he would come on and start presenting it so we we i got a little bit of sneak

01:04:40.540 peek to that and one system that i implemented i'll leave you guys with this is as we got going

01:04:47.340 you know he showed me the systems all that stuff is so daily i have three things that i focus on

01:04:53.740 thank help and ask at some level it doesn't have to be overwhelming whatever you do but those kind

01:05:00.940 of components is try and do something in each of those buckets for somebody else or ask something of

01:05:06.220 them and it's it was just a system that made a huge difference to me just because it puts you in

01:05:11.820 gratitude mode and how can i be of value and then in my work life whatever it's you got to learn how

01:05:17.500 to ask valuable questions or ask for help or things like that but that was part of scott talking that

01:05:23.420 through to build a simple system that you can do daily so it was yeah i got i got much more out of

01:05:30.460 the relationship than he did i'm i'm i'm sure of that can you say those three words again oh god

01:05:36.700 oh i just want to hear those three words you said that that this sure thank help and ask that's it

01:05:46.140 that was kind of kind do those three buckets a day but go ahead i'm sorry shelley yeah no i was just

01:05:52.780 going to say that uh he would wake up till the end i don't know if people know this he would wake up at

01:06:00.380 4 a.m no matter what to prepare for his show at seven four o'clock when he was sicker than sick

01:06:12.140 barely could stay awake i mean he would be writing his notes just falling asleep till the end i but he

01:06:20.380 it didn't stop him i asked him like how about why don't we wake up at you know 5 30 maybe sleeping a

01:06:27.740 little bit more nope four o'clock it was and he would fall asleep he's like oh wake me up if i'm you know

01:06:34.780 falling asleep it's like he was dedicated to this he very dedicated it was really important to him so

01:06:43.820 yeah i mean scott always said sleep was a waste of time so i i love that mindset and um i would like

01:06:55.420 some sleep personally but yes sleep is a waste of time he had things to do and he did and he did more

01:07:01.900 than most and uh right right till his last breath which was just uh inspirational and um just taught us

01:07:13.260 a whole other level of lessons about life and death and dying and um i hope that i hope that i can

01:07:22.460 you know carry on the way he did when you know when one day you know god forbid but we'll be in those

01:07:28.460 situations i i just i'm so grateful that he always had his mind about him and um you know that he

01:07:37.660 he got to do what he loved doing till the very very end which is be with his family and work and

01:07:44.220 think and try to solve problems and make the world a better place and ultimately just to be useful so

01:07:51.660 that was amazing that that happened for him yeah he told us that it was going to be a transition month

01:07:58.380 right we're still in january and um again the longest month of my life i think uh has been i don't know

01:08:06.220 with all of you all the stuff that is going on uh behind the scenes to put all this together and um

01:08:13.100 i just want to second what erica was saying that we're not nobody none of us trying to be scott here

01:08:18.380 or anything we're just trying to uh keep respect his wishes and honor his wishes and i'm so happy that um

01:08:26.620 shelly is you know is soldering on and loving him more and more and more and more in the chat is embracing

01:08:32.860 you and in the community and then and it becomes this dopamine cycle uh that we can continue and

01:08:40.300 sustain so um it's been a wonderful week uh for the show and and i think that um we're just gonna keep

01:08:47.740 trying to to be as useful as possible and and i'm glad that when join us today to to give us that scott

01:08:55.260 view you know that we don't have so i don't know if you want to go over the questions they asked us i

01:09:03.980 think they were asking about gary and roman and where where they're gonna be at and yeah yeah gary

01:09:13.020 romans they're they're staying with the family savannah is introducing well they they've been for the last

01:09:21.500 month a little bit more introducing she has two uh english cream um dogs so they have been slowly

01:09:30.860 been introducing the dogs to them so they are taking the dog they're taking roman and gary so

01:09:37.660 staying with the family and gary and roman are used to savannah they know her they love her yeah it's not

01:09:44.620 like it's not going to be traumatizing for them they're with people they know yeah and she's going

01:09:49.900 to make sure they have their own space so they can hide away from the dogs if they need to so the dogs

01:09:55.340 can't get to them they'll have their little door she's got it all planned out so they'll have their

01:10:00.300 own space if they want to get away from the dogs but you know if if for some reason it didn't work out

01:10:06.060 if they'll be with me and my four other cats shelley's an animal lover too you guys yes so she has

01:10:14.460 beautiful cats and a dog or no no so i just i yeah and i rescued so i live close to pleasanton um in

01:10:26.220 livermore it's you know maybe five miles maybe a little bit longer away and i live on so i have

01:10:35.340 property i live on five acres so i've had two well i've had two strays come up and basically bring me

01:10:46.300 their babies so from the first time was when i lost my it was a year after i lost my son and all of a

01:10:57.180 sudden we you know we would feed this outdoor cat and it looked like it was getting bigger and bigger

01:11:06.140 i'm like are we feeding this cat too much i think it's you know we we may we may want to it was very

01:11:13.580 feral would not let us close but it would go to the bowl if we set it outside so we're like this i don't

01:11:22.060 know and then all of a sudden we had this tree out our windows we can kind of look and we have this

01:11:26.700 tree all of a sudden i see these little kittens climbing up the tree with the mom and i'm like oh

01:11:31.340 my goodness so we you know captured them all and got them all fixed and uh released mama back and then

01:11:41.020 we kept three so we kept three of them uh and my friend took the other two and then mom still comes

01:11:51.100 to visit her i mean she still comes every day same time we feed the cats and she comes back to see her

01:11:58.860 her babies and we feed her then not too long ago uh we another we were driving up the road and it was

01:12:09.180 a black cat and i'm like it looked kind of like a skunk and we're like is that a skunk in the road

01:12:13.900 because it looked like it had a really big belly and i know that's a cat and the cat followed me all the

01:12:21.180 way up the hill all the way to the house very friendly cat but super skinny uh oh i just felt so

01:12:28.460 sorry for the cat and you could tell just so pregnant and brought the cat into the garage

01:12:35.180 because i wasn't sure if it was going to let me touch it so i brought it into the garage and then

01:12:40.140 ended up like very friendly letting me pet her and then brought her in like kind of i had just like

01:12:46.300 this little hallway and i put this bin with towels because i'm thinking i don't know how far along she

01:12:52.060 is i'll call the vet tomorrow i'll figure it out next thing you know the next day she

01:12:56.780 was popping out babies so we did get them all adopted except for one um and we kept the one so

01:13:06.380 now we have they know to come to you i know i'm like okay i gotta look look away so i love that

01:13:15.580 did you see other questions marcella yeah it's the cat distribution system finding you

01:13:20.460 um you know the weak link no cats no cats apply please um they are asking with their program

01:13:31.340 for the service and can it be shared with everyone

01:13:37.740 i can share the cover shelly and who the speakers were yeah and i'll leave the other side out yeah yeah

01:13:43.580 okay i'll post that later you guys yeah there was some information in there like addresses we don't

01:13:49.980 want those in there i'll put i'll post it later so you can see who all the speakers were investing

01:13:55.580 is all about the future so what do you think is going to happen bitcoin is sort of inevitable at

01:14:00.860 this point i think it would come down to precious metals i hope we don't go cashless i would say land

01:14:07.340 is a safe investment technology companies solar energy robotic pollinators might be a thing a

01:14:13.820 wrestler to face a robot that will have they'll have to happen so whatever you think is going to

01:14:19.340 happen in the future you can invest in it at wealth simple start now at wealth simple.com

01:14:25.500 and they were asking i'm sorry to ask you can like decline to answer but um they were asking about

01:14:32.780 josue oh yes because he became part of the show even though we never saw him in real life but you

01:14:40.300 know like oh i have a water leak and um is um actually i don't know there was a story that joshua told us

01:14:50.540 um i'm sure he's okay with me sharing it joshua starts with jo and josue starts with jo um sometimes

01:15:00.140 instead of josue he would end up scott would end up calling joshua or texting joshua about water leaks

01:15:12.940 yes he was he was at the he was at the celebration of life he just kind of snuck in and didn't really

01:15:19.900 you know he he was there he didn't come over afterwards to the house but he was there and yes

01:15:25.180 he's still uh he's still been doing things for us at the house and and yeah for for those that don't

01:15:33.500 know josue was like the contractor for scott throughout all that time if something needed to

01:15:39.580 be fixed he would be involved in fixing it at least from what scott would tell us and so he became like

01:15:45.820 this character for the locals in the man cave more so um because one time he came by like we felt like

01:15:53.980 he walked behind uh uh scott and we were like scott show him show him like no no no you know so it's

01:16:01.820 like became this thing for us to figure out what he looked like what is he what was he like yeah you

01:16:07.900 were like interview hosai yeah he was a he was a part of the house for sure he was there almost every

01:16:16.700 day and i think honestly i think he scott would just make up things for him to do just so that he could be

01:16:22.060 around and not be alone uh and he's like oh i think we need to i don't know repeat the doors or

01:16:28.220 you know that type of thing because that's who scott was he he was generous he you know kept him working

01:16:35.340 and you know he liked the company to be honest with you and i also want to oh go ahead marcella this is

01:16:42.700 connected into a whole so they were asking about the they some of them knew about uh scott's bathroom

01:16:50.540 um and how it was being uh uh being changed because of a leak and they were asking if it got

01:16:58.940 finished the scott's bathroom yes the master finally yeah the master so when we built it we built it

01:17:09.180 mediterranean style which you know at the time you would think that that would have you know lasted that

01:17:15.740 style would have lasted forever but you know here we are now more modern and everything's more a little

01:17:21.500 has a little cleaner look a little brighter so scott decided to change it up you know um change the

01:17:31.260 cabinets paint them blue let's not have them look like old cabinets and redo the showers and redo the

01:17:38.700 the granite and the tile and the flooring downstairs so he did a lot to the house just to give it more

01:17:47.180 brighter more modern but still mediterranean look i mean when you look from the outside it's just

01:17:52.300 it's mediterranean it's hard it's hard to change a mediterranean house fully into a modern house but

01:17:58.460 he he did a really good job at um doing that and in that he did the showers and uh you know

01:18:08.460 fixing the leaks and the showers and the shower heads and all that stuff so yeah it's it's almost

01:18:14.700 i would say it's pretty much finished with most of the stuff that will probably do to it and and

01:18:21.500 unfortunately i know i don't really want to break the news but he will be the state will be selling the

01:18:27.180 house so um unfortunately uh it's it's too big of a house for anyone to be honest with you any one

01:18:36.860 person i would say it's a it's a it's a big house so he will be selling it um you know i'll give details

01:18:45.180 more when the time comes but it's it you know most likely do it off market and um but it's it's going to

01:18:54.860 be really hard for i think everybody the family um you know we've built that's all we know you know

01:19:03.340 we've it's going to be really hard but maybe i say everybody just move into it

01:19:09.660 yeah let's do it let's do that we can keep the museum in there and just buy it somebody clip me and

01:19:18.460 and and oh elon this clip that we would want elon musk to buy scott's house to keep

01:19:30.300 elon doesn't even have a house that's the best part

01:19:32.620 yeah um i wanted to just say to uh shout out to paul collider who kept scott like sane for all

01:19:42.300 these years he would do our check of which platforms were working and he's like this quiet

01:19:48.860 unsung hero but honestly paul collider shout out i don't know if you're listening anymore to us but

01:19:55.580 never took a day off and if he did we didn't know about it he had someone else doing it

01:19:59.340 um shout out to everybody and i also wanted to tell you something what was it i forgot but um

01:20:07.100 i know it's getting a little bit later you guys but i'm positive that shelly and quinn would both

01:20:13.420 come back on together and we could have more questions for them i think it's really fun to talk about

01:20:19.900 scott and um he's our favorite subject right so we will definitely do it again also um

01:20:28.140 um shelly just reiterating about locals one more time so the micro lessons are being worked on

01:20:34.860 they're just being kind of tightened up because um they like shelly and scott wanted them to be like

01:20:41.820 really nice and concise and uh clippable so those are being worked on they'll remain on locals so

01:20:48.940 definitely come over and join us there and there will be some bonus episodes over there too shelly and

01:20:56.060 i were talking about maybe scott's brother will come on with us on locals and we'll be able to

01:21:02.300 talk to him and some other ideas that we had and um any closing statements from anybody oh and i want

01:21:09.340 to remind you too owen is on tomorrow on spaces okay so owen and sergio and sjv will be over there am i

01:21:17.740 right yes yeah we'll start at the normal time that scott would have a show so it's seven a.m pacific or

01:21:24.940 10 a.m eastern or you can do it time zone and i'm sure you have a million news stories to talk about

01:21:31.180 we do we always do awesome and those go long you guys you can get like a news fill like no other oh

01:21:37.660 we have some amazing guests lined up for next week i'm so excited so you know click in sergio did you

01:21:45.260 you want to say something no marcela wants to say something i think okay yeah um i just wanted to

01:21:50.220 bring up that this weekend there's more meetups with more people so scottadamsmeetup.com you can go

01:21:56.780 there um we're not connected to it but somebody put that together and it's where you can find other scott

01:22:07.100 fans and they're having quite a few meetups this weekend and i just wanted to bring that up i know they

01:22:13.980 have an at x it's scottadamsmeet m-e-e-t scottadamsmeet like i'm meeting somebody everybody you know

01:22:27.820 one second to say the following i do i i have to say that erica you've done so much and so many things

01:22:39.740 and and you are doing a wonderful job and i just like we love you and i'm sure everybody does

01:22:46.940 and i just want to say thank you for thank you and being able to even through the grief being able to

01:22:54.540 just basically making it look because yesterday the cnn lady um the kim she was like have you been

01:23:01.820 a producer before you know because you seem like a complete natural at what you do and that's so

01:23:09.660 sweet thanks marcella thank you and i would echo just you know if you can go to a meetup i think

01:23:16.380 they're great i mean honestly i consider what i just did at the service to be one of those because i got

01:23:21.500 to spend a lot of time with sergio and marcella and erica and a bunch of other people and um it was

01:23:26.940 just great meeting people in person and just getting to know 100 level and it was really great

01:23:33.740 for the four of us to spend time together and it didn't feel awkward it didn't feel weird you know

01:23:40.460 it was like we've known each other for so long virtually that meeting was just as easy and we

01:23:47.260 all have very different personalities and they all work so well together and then shelly is just like

01:23:53.580 like the easiest person to just immediately love so it was just very cohesive and fun

01:24:01.820 and everybody that loves scott is all right with me so yeah yes thank you erica thank you all of you

01:24:09.900 guys so erica you are doing a great job i thank you i so appreciate you um just leading us to this

01:24:19.580 because you're you are a natural oh thank you that's so sweet thanks you guys quinn thank you

01:24:27.420 so so much for coming on when shelly and i were talking about like who should come on and i was like

01:24:33.180 can quinn come on and she said oh my gosh i think he'd love it so i'm so happy that you did and that

01:24:39.180 we all are witnesses that you've agreed to come back on with us well and and thank you you guys have been

01:24:45.020 great uh keep going keep going i will throw plant a seed is with jay or however you do if they can

01:24:52.700 just make a compilation of scott making himself laugh and just yes go with that you can throw in

01:24:59.020 some rants i loved when he kind of got on one too when he was get fired up a little bit but his laugh

01:25:04.700 was great it was hard to make him laugh as hard as he could make himself laugh but uh it is it's just a

01:25:11.660 big part of his personality i know his brother mentioned that in the in the video at the memorial

01:25:15.340 if you haven't heard it uh dave reflected on his laugh too but uh have jay work on that if you can

01:25:22.780 that's just a hundred percent because not there's nothing better than scott either in a fit of laughter

01:25:30.780 or rage like we like we love both of those dopamine hits and amazing shelly did you know that there was

01:25:38.460 another shelly that did you ever hear that there was a shelly that was like a troll of his

01:25:45.980 so the name shelly was like a trigger for us so whenever there was a troll or someone acting up

01:25:52.220 there was this lunatic shelly who was like a total troll for him so any troll we'd be like shelly

01:25:58.860 and we'd all be like it's shelly and we would laugh so hard obviously it wasn't you it was another shelly

01:26:04.140 oh that's funny so all right you guys thank you so much and we'll all be logging in tomorrow to

01:26:13.020 see um owen on spaces with sergio and sjv we'll be back on monday we have a very special guest lined

01:26:21.420 up for monday um so make sure you're here bring your mugs and be useful this weekend and always and

01:26:30.140 um you guys let's have a final closing set yeah sergio you want to say uh i want to uh praise you

01:26:35.020 a little more okay oh no there's a lot of things that happen behind the scenes that uh that erica

01:26:41.420 is keeping everything together that all you guys have no idea we just wanted to say okay so there's

01:26:47.020 a lot of stuff that i don't know if anybody has the skills to make it happen what she's what you're

01:26:52.140 making happen over the next uh few weeks and months so i just wanted to say that thank you

01:26:56.140 thank you you guys so much i really love you guys a lot thank you all right so a final closing sip

01:27:02.220 to our beloved scott you guys go out there be useful we love you and to scott scott

01:27:12.940 bye guys bye

01:27:26.140 bye

01:27:40.140 see you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 30, 2026

Episode 3084 - The Scott Adams School 01⧸30⧸26

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