Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Scott Adams Celebration of Life 01⧸25⧸26

00:00:00.000 Afternoon, I'm Greg Gutfeld.

00:00:05.880 I'm lucky to be a friend of Scott Adams.

00:00:10.520 We're here to celebrate the life of Scott Adams,

00:00:13.320 which is incredibly easy to do.

00:00:15.800 Anybody who knows him has been touched by his life,

00:00:19.040 and your life has been made better by Scott Adams.

00:00:21.520 Although this is the first day I found out his middle name was Raymond.

00:00:26.960 I don't know how to feel about that.

00:00:28.700 I'm more upset that he never told me his middle name was Raymond.

00:00:32.620 I have so much to talk about Scott, but I'm speaking later,

00:00:36.220 and I don't want to just shoot my load right here.

00:00:38.620 Probably not a good adjective to use,

00:00:40.460 but it is amazing how prepared I am to talk about Scott

00:00:45.120 because Scott gave me the tools to talk about life and people and friendship

00:00:50.080 that I wouldn't have been able to do before.

00:00:52.200 I am extremely grateful to be here and to see all of you.

00:00:57.820 I'm incredibly grateful for the life that I have in my family, in my job.

00:01:02.280 I'm grateful for those things,

00:01:03.800 and a lot of those things came because of my friendship with Scott.

00:01:08.180 So ultimately, beneath my gratitude for my life

00:01:11.280 is my eternal gratitude for knowing Scott.

00:01:14.780 But I'll get into that later.

00:01:16.680 Right now, I want to introduce the legendary,

00:01:21.280 just an amazing person, Shelley Adams,

00:01:24.340 who will do her welcome remarks.

00:01:26.700 I want to thank everyone for being here

00:01:35.900 and for bringing us in live stream.

00:01:40.640 In Scott's last few months, he would say to me,

00:01:43.820 I really didn't know until now how many lives I've impacted.

00:01:48.320 I am so grateful that I got the opportunity to see it.

00:01:52.780 I wish I had a little bit more time, but I've done my job.

00:01:57.980 I'm ready, and now my wish is to keep my legacy alive by those I impacted,

00:02:04.380 passing my lessons along to others.

00:02:06.700 I do believe Scott is watching over us right now

00:02:11.060 and continuing to see how his presence shaped many of our lives

00:02:15.900 and the impact he made on this world.

00:02:20.100 With that, I have a special video that I'd like to share with you.

00:02:24.300 The world lost a great one this month when we lost Scott Adams.

00:02:31.080 There was nobody like him.

00:02:32.920 But heaven gained, and a good heart, a brilliant mind, and a very brave soul.

00:02:38.520 That's the big gain for heaven.

00:02:40.860 Scott was one of a kind among the most interesting and original people and thinkers of our time.

00:02:46.760 Scott, his wit, humor, talent, kindness, and insights on life

00:02:51.460 endeared him to millions and millions of people

00:02:54.440 and taught his many fans, readers, and listeners

00:02:57.420 how to look at the world in a very different way.

00:03:00.520 He was a very different guy, but brilliant.

00:03:03.340 I will never forget that Scott was with me from the very beginning,

00:03:07.640 right at the very beginning.

00:03:09.520 He knew what was happening.

00:03:10.680 He got it.

00:03:11.260 And he was a loyal and true friend to all of us until the very end.

00:03:17.180 After I heard Scott was sick, I called him up and asked him

00:03:20.420 if there was anything at all I could do to help.

00:03:24.000 And as I was reminded then, Scott was a courageous and relentlessly positive guy.

00:03:30.820 Over these past few months, he endured pain and faced death

00:03:34.240 with extraordinary spirit and grace and talent,

00:03:38.440 because he was in there pitching.

00:03:40.020 His talent would always come through, no matter how sick he was.

00:03:44.340 Scott, we love you.

00:03:45.440 We miss you.

00:03:46.240 And we will never, ever forget you.

00:03:49.320 Thank you for everything and everything you've done for me.

00:03:52.460 And God bless the United States of America, which loves you so much.

00:03:57.540 Thank you very much, Scott.

00:03:58.660 That was so Trump.

00:04:11.320 All right.

00:04:11.880 Our next speaker is one of Scott's friends and a great writer, Joel Pollack.

00:04:15.780 Today, we mourn our beloved Scott Adams, yet we also celebrate his extraordinary life.

00:04:31.920 In a few moments, I'm going to share some of the best news some of us have ever heard.

00:04:39.560 But first, my name is Joel Pollack, and I'm a journalist.

00:04:43.860 I became close with Scott Adams over the last 10 years, and he asked me to write his biography.

00:04:49.700 Scott was the creator of Dilbert and the author of books like How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big and the host of Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:05:01.000 He introduced an awareness of persuasion in politics.

00:05:04.960 He was also a husband, a stepfather, and a brother.

00:05:10.520 And many of us felt he was also our best friend.

00:05:15.200 So many of us traveled across the country, despite the snowstorm, to be here.

00:05:20.320 And so many thousands more are watching online, and millions will watch in the days that follow.

00:05:25.780 With us today in spirit are Dilbert, Wally, Alice, and so many more characters.

00:05:35.740 The pointy-haired boss sent flowers, and the Republic of Albania declared a national day of mourning.

00:05:46.980 Dogbert sends regrets. He couldn't get back in time from the Davos Summit in Switzerland.

00:05:51.720 Scott was born on June 8, 1957, the second child of Virginia and Paul Adams.

00:05:59.520 From an early age, Scott had a vision of what his life would become.

00:06:03.840 His mother used to say Scott would be president.

00:06:07.040 He replied that he preferred to be the power behind the president.

00:06:11.680 Looking back at the past decade, it's clear he achieved that.

00:06:16.020 President Donald Trump called Scott the great influencer, and he should know.

00:06:20.560 Scott predicted Trump would win way back in 2015, and he helped many people understand Trump.

00:06:28.240 Scott debunked hoaxes about Trump, and he offered ideas about how Trump could govern.

00:06:33.740 And the White House was listening.

00:06:36.340 In 2017, when North Korea's Kim Jong-un threatened America with ballistic missiles,

00:06:41.360 Scott had a suggestion.

00:06:43.040 Why not reach out to him?

00:06:44.720 The idea made its way to the White House, and Trump gave it a try.

00:06:48.160 The result was calm on the Korean peninsula, and peace over the Pacific.

00:06:53.920 You can see from the president's heartfelt tribute just how deeply he respected and loved Scott.

00:07:00.140 That message, by the way, was delivered thanks to a special effort by Greg Gutfeld,

00:07:04.800 and Jared Kushner, and Dan Scavino.

00:07:07.560 Their generosity reflects Scott's own.

00:07:09.980 I was one of the many fans who reached out to Scott for advice, and whom he helped.

00:07:16.040 In 2016, I interviewed him, and we became friends.

00:07:19.740 Over the years, I confided in Scott, and he in me.

00:07:22.560 On the day he was canceled by the media,

00:07:34.140 I came over, and I told him we would always be with him.

00:07:39.920 We would always be on his side.

00:07:41.920 And, you know, we didn't agree on everything.

00:07:44.020 That was the point.

00:07:46.580 Scott would admire the skill with which someone presented their view,

00:07:50.000 even if he disagreed with it.

00:07:52.660 That gave him intellectual freedom and moral clarity.

00:07:57.200 Scott was generous long before he had the means to help other people.

00:08:01.340 Scott's sister, Cindy, told me that when her first husband left her alone and pregnant in Boston,

00:08:06.360 she found herself in a financial bind.

00:08:09.120 Scott called her from San Francisco, where he had just started working at a bank.

00:08:13.420 He had no money, but he offered to help anyway.

00:08:16.120 Together, they brainstormed possible solutions, including Scott's idea of helping her start her own daycare.

00:08:23.320 Though she ended up taking a different path,

00:08:26.020 that moral support and offer of financial support meant everything to her.

00:08:31.220 Scott was also a fighter.

00:08:32.980 He stood up for free speech and for truth.

00:08:35.960 Scott often defended Trump, but he was an independent thinker,

00:08:39.600 and he often had a contrary view.

00:08:41.700 For example, you may remember Stormy Daniels,

00:08:45.960 the adult film actress who turned against Trump.

00:08:49.500 When she was arrested in Ohio for public indecency,

00:08:53.320 many Trump supporters were happy.

00:08:55.860 But Scott said Stormy Daniels was probably innocent.

00:08:59.740 Police reported that Stormy had battered a patron at a strip club with her bare breasts.

00:09:04.820 Scott said that sounded like a good time.

00:09:06.780 Scott used humor to diffuse our anxieties about politics,

00:09:16.520 when many of us felt hounded or, yes, hunted because of our views.

00:09:21.500 He created a character called Dale with a tissue paper goatee

00:09:25.520 as the symbol of elitism and snark.

00:09:28.580 We laughed at Dale and we set our fears aside.

00:09:31.620 We also cried with Scott as he endured the death of his stepson.

00:09:36.220 That loss motivated Scott to push our political leaders

00:09:40.560 to fight the threat of fentanyl.

00:09:42.620 It's not a coincidence that fentanyl deaths are way down today.

00:09:47.520 That's great news, but the best news is still coming.

00:09:51.940 Over the years, Scott shared dozens of lessons

00:09:54.440 through his books and live streams,

00:09:56.660 using systems instead of goals, building a talent stack.

00:10:00.120 These were lessons he had absorbed across his lifetime.

00:10:03.280 Take the talent stack, for example,

00:10:04.740 the idea of collecting skills that add up to more

00:10:07.600 than the sum of their parts.

00:10:09.920 Growing up in Wyndham in upstate New York,

00:10:12.060 Scott, Cindy, and their older brother Dave

00:10:14.060 had watched their father teach himself many different skills,

00:10:17.780 including how to build his own swimming pool

00:10:19.920 and how to invest in the stock market.

00:10:22.860 I asked Scott whether he had drawn some of his ideas from the Bible,

00:10:26.360 even if he himself wasn't yet religious.

00:10:29.020 He said no, that principles like turn the other cheek

00:10:32.260 had universal relevance.

00:10:34.640 But when Scott began to embrace Christianity,

00:10:37.140 even though I'm Jewish,

00:10:38.300 I shared a passage from the New Testament with him

00:10:40.880 from Matthew 25, verses 14 to 30,

00:10:44.180 the parable of the talents.

00:10:46.520 A talent is a coin, but the word has many meanings.

00:10:50.240 In the story, Jesus rebukes a servant

00:10:52.420 who buries his talent to keep it safe

00:10:54.300 and rewards the servants who multiply their talents

00:10:57.360 by taking them into the market and investing them.

00:11:00.640 That lesson resonates with Scott's own.

00:11:03.860 Scott wrote that the story of Jonah and the whale

00:11:06.040 had turned him into a skeptic of religion as a child.

00:11:09.360 How could a man survive inside a whale for three days?

00:11:12.740 I wonder if what really bothered Scott wasn't the whale,

00:11:16.880 but that Jonah ran away from his mission.

00:11:19.280 He didn't want to use his talents to help others.

00:11:22.440 Jonah was the critic who wanted to sit on the sidelines

00:11:25.540 to see everything destroyed so he could be proven right.

00:11:29.440 Scott's message was the opposite.

00:11:31.320 Make the most of your talents.

00:11:33.080 Don't be afraid to be embarrassed or to be wrong.

00:11:36.080 Be useful.

00:11:37.860 And be happy when your enemies do the right thing.

00:11:41.560 One of my favorite lessons

00:11:42.640 was what Scott called the 48-hour rule.

00:11:45.520 When someone said something crazy or offensive,

00:11:47.980 social media would explode.

00:11:49.740 But Scott would give them 48 hours

00:11:51.760 to walk it back or to explain.

00:11:53.500 It was a way of restoring decency, of healing.

00:11:58.060 Maybe we should all commit

00:11:59.120 to keeping the 48-hour rule alive.

00:12:03.320 Scott was also relentlessly positive.

00:12:05.900 He told us that as tough as the news might be

00:12:08.240 on any given morning,

00:12:09.900 we have to remember we are living in a golden age.

00:12:13.160 That was good news.

00:12:14.860 But the best news is still coming.

00:12:18.360 Scott taught us how to reframe difficult situations.

00:12:20.920 He reframed cancellation as liberation.

00:12:24.120 And he found a way to thrive

00:12:25.460 outside the mainstream media.

00:12:27.880 He went through two divorces.

00:12:29.800 But in his last days, as he looked back,

00:12:31.940 he told me he had enjoyed what he called

00:12:33.760 two complete marriages.

00:12:36.140 They had not failed.

00:12:37.320 They had been fulfilled.

00:12:38.840 What a reframe.

00:12:40.440 And of course, Shelley remained his best friend,

00:12:43.060 his assistant, and his caregiver

00:12:44.400 through the hardest times.

00:12:46.460 Thank you for everything, Shelley.

00:12:47.660 Scott spent his last months

00:12:50.920 helping everyone he could.

00:12:52.580 He helped his stepdaughter celebrate her wedding.

00:12:55.320 He offered to help me and others

00:12:56.780 when we were displaced by the Palisades fire.

00:12:59.860 When Scott asked me to speak at his funeral,

00:13:01.960 I told him that I would offer another reframe.

00:13:04.860 From grief to gratitude.

00:13:07.460 We miss Scott, but we are so thankful

00:13:09.260 for the life that he lived.

00:13:11.500 We will remember him every day

00:13:13.140 at 10 a.m. Eastern, 7 Pacific.

00:13:15.840 He gave us the simultaneous sip.

00:13:18.120 During the pandemic,

00:13:19.200 he gave us the simultaneous swaddle.

00:13:21.960 He kept his live stream going to his last day.

00:13:26.240 Scott became successful through Dilbert,

00:13:28.100 but he believed his legacy would be

00:13:29.560 what he taught people

00:13:30.520 about how to understand the world

00:13:32.040 and improve their lives.

00:13:33.940 Let me try to summarize his philosophy.

00:13:36.140 Scott believed we could never know what was real.

00:13:39.400 We all see the world through a filter.

00:13:40.900 That doesn't mean everything is relative.

00:13:43.740 Some filters help us achieve more than others.

00:13:46.760 The crucial thing is that we can choose our filters

00:13:49.340 and become authors of our own reality.

00:13:52.680 For example, Scott applied what he called

00:13:54.880 the Dilbert filter to understand the chaos

00:13:57.140 of large organizations.

00:13:59.100 He used the persuasion filter to understand politics

00:14:01.740 and to shape events.

00:14:04.140 Some say that without Scott,

00:14:05.900 the last election would have been very different.

00:14:08.320 Many of us would still be censored today.

00:14:10.440 Scott gave us our voices back.

00:14:14.080 He changed that reality.

00:14:16.700 Of course, the physical world still exists.

00:14:19.780 You might say,

00:14:20.560 what good is a filter against something like cancer?

00:14:24.180 But look around us.

00:14:26.000 Have you ever seen anyone leave this world

00:14:28.680 surrounded by so much love?

00:14:31.300 By facing death in the public way he did,

00:14:33.620 Scott became even closer to the people who loved him.

00:14:35.860 Scott reframed death as not just a physical separation,

00:14:41.440 but also an opportunity for connection.

00:14:44.620 He told me after he could no longer walk

00:14:46.880 that in some ways it was the worst time of his life,

00:14:49.420 but in many ways it was also the best.

00:14:52.060 Two days before he died,

00:14:54.700 I sent Scott a photo of the first page of his biography.

00:14:58.300 His last words to me were,

00:15:00.680 and so it begins.

00:15:02.140 Good luck, my friend.

00:15:04.480 Even in the end, Scott saw a beginning.

00:15:08.420 Scott embraced Christianity in his last days.

00:15:11.140 He promised his followers he would do it.

00:15:13.480 In fact, he had done it already, privately.

00:15:16.260 It was the one thing he had kept to himself.

00:15:19.800 He reasoned that if he was wrong, no loss.

00:15:22.860 If he reached heaven, he would know he had been right.

00:15:27.300 Now, finally,

00:15:31.420 for the best news some of us have ever heard.

00:15:34.740 Are you ready?

00:15:37.720 The morning after he died,

00:15:39.400 one of his friends, who is not religious,

00:15:41.700 sent me a note.

00:15:43.860 Joel, he wrote,

00:15:44.580 I woke up this morning

00:15:46.980 with a three-word phrase in my head.

00:15:49.760 Incredibly good news.

00:15:51.820 Just the phrase.

00:15:53.500 And no linkage to Scott

00:15:54.800 until I asked myself,

00:15:56.780 incredible good news about what?

00:16:00.200 And then I tried to dismiss it,

00:16:02.080 but I couldn't.

00:16:03.360 I didn't really ask for any messages,

00:16:05.440 but this one arrived.

00:16:07.400 Incredibly good news.

00:16:10.480 What does that mean?

00:16:11.420 As Scott said,

00:16:13.920 we each understand news

00:16:15.020 through our own filters.

00:16:17.100 But if you have a certain filter,

00:16:19.180 call it the salvation filter,

00:16:21.440 what I just told you

00:16:22.700 may be the best news

00:16:23.760 you have ever heard.

00:16:25.580 Is it real?

00:16:27.260 Was it Scott?

00:16:28.600 I can't tell you.

00:16:30.320 What I can tell you

00:16:31.280 is how beautiful it is

00:16:32.600 that millions of people

00:16:34.100 who love Scott

00:16:34.820 can look forward

00:16:35.880 to having coffee with him again.

00:16:37.660 For now,

00:16:39.520 we can pass along

00:16:40.300 Scott's lessons

00:16:41.040 to the people

00:16:41.740 we will one day leave behind

00:16:43.260 to keep him alive

00:16:44.960 in this world as well.

00:16:48.060 So it begins.

00:16:49.720 Good luck, my friend.

00:16:59.440 Thanks, Joel.

00:17:00.160 That was amazing.

00:17:01.200 Up next,

00:17:02.160 the great Shelley Adams.

00:17:03.460 Thank you.

00:17:07.660 Before I begin,

00:17:15.820 I want to call out

00:17:16.960 my husband, Pat,

00:17:18.620 who has known

00:17:19.860 from the beginning

00:17:20.600 of our 11-year relationship

00:17:22.420 that I'm a package deal.

00:17:24.700 Not only did I come

00:17:25.840 with two children,

00:17:27.180 but I also came

00:17:28.180 with an ex-husband

00:17:29.180 who would be forever

00:17:30.420 in my life.

00:17:32.360 Not your typical

00:17:33.580 blended family,

00:17:35.640 but I'm not your typical

00:17:37.660 but I appreciate

00:17:39.140 Pat's understanding,

00:17:40.520 love, support

00:17:41.420 through the years

00:17:42.240 as well as giving up

00:17:43.520 our time

00:17:44.160 while taking care

00:17:45.060 of Scott

00:17:45.560 until the end.

00:17:47.720 Pat,

00:17:48.240 I know you've heard a lot.

00:17:50.700 You've had to endear

00:17:51.660 a lot about Scott,

00:17:53.120 especially in the last

00:17:54.240 past year,

00:17:55.120 but here I go again.

00:17:57.100 You might want

00:17:58.000 to pull out

00:17:58.460 those earplugs

00:17:59.200 that I slipped

00:17:59.720 in your pocket

00:18:00.460 earlier today.

00:18:03.540 I'm so unbelievably

00:18:05.300 grateful to have

00:18:07.080 Scott in my life

00:18:08.020 for the last 24 years.

00:18:12.340 Scott was public

00:18:14.940 about almost everything,

00:18:16.940 but when it came

00:18:18.100 to his family,

00:18:19.120 he was a protector.

00:18:21.540 I'll try to do my best

00:18:23.100 to give you

00:18:23.840 the short story

00:18:24.780 of how Scott

00:18:25.620 came into my life

00:18:26.740 and save the long,

00:18:30.860 juicy version

00:18:31.640 for Scott's biography.

00:18:34.600 You're welcome, Joel.

00:18:37.760 I met Scott

00:18:39.000 in 2022

00:18:40.000 at a local gym

00:18:41.560 when I was working

00:18:42.560 part-time,

00:18:44.120 taking care,

00:18:45.440 taking a break

00:18:46.160 from my career

00:18:46.880 to raise

00:18:47.960 two young children.

00:18:49.100 As you all know,

00:18:51.660 Scott always

00:18:52.160 had a routine.

00:18:54.060 He had a regular

00:18:54.820 standing tennis date

00:18:56.080 with his friend,

00:18:57.400 John,

00:18:58.620 which happened to be

00:19:00.060 during the time

00:19:00.740 I worked.

00:19:02.060 Scott was so easy

00:19:03.020 to talk to,

00:19:04.600 instantly became friends,

00:19:06.980 but embarrassingly

00:19:09.060 for several months,

00:19:11.720 I didn't know

00:19:12.280 what he did

00:19:12.680 for a living,

00:19:13.620 nor did I know

00:19:14.720 much about

00:19:15.280 the Dilbert cartoon,

00:19:17.340 until he decided

00:19:18.760 to share that

00:19:19.320 with me.

00:19:20.440 All I knew

00:19:21.180 is that he was funny,

00:19:23.040 smart,

00:19:24.000 kind,

00:19:24.860 uplifting,

00:19:25.700 positive,

00:19:27.320 very fit.

00:19:31.480 One year later

00:19:32.560 in 2023,

00:19:34.380 2003,

00:19:36.340 it was time

00:19:38.240 for me to go back

00:19:39.100 to full-time work,

00:19:40.180 and Scott happened

00:19:40.920 to mention

00:19:41.440 he was looking

00:19:42.160 to hire

00:19:42.620 an administrative assistant.

00:19:44.520 With the ability

00:19:45.280 to work from home,

00:19:46.540 it was the perfect

00:19:47.300 opportunity for him

00:19:48.760 with my children

00:19:50.040 only being three

00:19:50.900 and five years old

00:19:51.920 at the time.

00:19:53.200 My main job

00:19:54.080 was just collecting

00:19:54.980 some great comic strip

00:19:56.480 ideas from people's

00:19:57.680 real work stories,

00:19:58.960 along with other projects

00:20:00.480 he had me do.

00:20:02.160 In 2024,

00:20:03.580 Scott asked me out

00:20:04.440 for dinner

00:20:04.900 with his tennis buddy,

00:20:06.460 John,

00:20:06.860 and his wife,

00:20:07.540 Lorraine.

00:20:08.600 I didn't think much of it,

00:20:10.860 as I considered

00:20:11.660 John my friend,

00:20:12.580 and why would Scott,

00:20:14.860 a very successful man,

00:20:16.600 have any interest

00:20:17.520 in a single divorced mom

00:20:19.020 with two young children

00:20:20.740 who was his employee?

00:20:24.120 Well,

00:20:24.420 little did I know,

00:20:25.860 he didn't see things

00:20:26.820 that way.

00:20:27.780 He saw qualities

00:20:28.780 in me

00:20:29.440 that he didn't see

00:20:30.760 in myself.

00:20:32.320 And to him,

00:20:33.600 I was the family

00:20:35.000 he always wanted.

00:20:37.260 Our relationship grew,

00:20:38.820 and the big test

00:20:40.540 was when it was time

00:20:42.160 to meet the kids,

00:20:43.740 who were only four

00:20:45.300 and six at the time.

00:20:47.540 What I didn't know then

00:20:49.100 is that Scott merely,

00:20:52.700 Scott didn't merely want,

00:20:55.400 he decided

00:20:56.360 that we were going

00:20:57.320 to be his family.

00:20:59.920 We all know

00:21:01.020 when Scott decides

00:21:03.100 something,

00:21:04.700 he'll do whatever it takes

00:21:05.760 to make it happen.

00:21:06.560 It wasn't going

00:21:09.800 to be easy

00:21:10.500 trying to win

00:21:11.640 over two shy,

00:21:12.800 stubborn kids

00:21:13.500 who didn't understand

00:21:14.440 why Scott was coming

00:21:15.560 into their lives.

00:21:17.980 Scott,

00:21:18.700 not having been

00:21:19.640 around children much,

00:21:21.840 this was definitely

00:21:22.820 going to be

00:21:23.360 one of his biggest challenges.

00:21:25.560 My daughter,

00:21:26.580 Savannah,

00:21:27.040 recalls her first

00:21:28.160 introduction to Scott.

00:21:30.200 When we were invited over,

00:21:32.100 Scott pulled out

00:21:32.860 some off-brand soda,

00:21:35.420 something really awful

00:21:36.540 version of Sprite

00:21:37.860 or Canada Dry.

00:21:38.940 She can't really remember

00:21:39.960 what it was.

00:21:41.740 But she wasn't too

00:21:42.640 happy or impressed.

00:21:45.080 For my son,

00:21:46.120 Justin,

00:21:47.040 he was younger

00:21:47.940 and a little more impressed

00:21:50.440 by Scott's jokes

00:21:51.580 and, of course,

00:21:52.660 his magic tricks.

00:21:57.340 Scott quickly learned

00:21:58.800 how difficult

00:21:59.340 it was

00:22:00.760 to entertain kids

00:22:01.920 as well

00:22:02.460 as how hard

00:22:03.400 it was going to be

00:22:04.320 for them

00:22:04.680 to adapt

00:22:05.260 to the new situation.

00:22:07.020 Scott was not

00:22:07.700 going to give up

00:22:08.440 because, remember,

00:22:09.920 he decided

00:22:10.620 that we were going

00:22:11.520 to be his family.

00:22:13.180 Of course,

00:22:14.220 Scott succeeded

00:22:15.060 as he did

00:22:16.380 with almost everything

00:22:17.320 he decided to do.

00:22:19.240 He researched,

00:22:20.360 he learned,

00:22:21.080 he used his persuasion techniques

00:22:23.700 to win the kids over.

00:22:25.600 We married in 2006

00:22:27.240 and became a family

00:22:28.560 and that forever

00:22:30.400 changed our lives.

00:22:34.500 He was a Scott

00:22:35.920 you all know and love,

00:22:39.300 accepted us

00:22:40.080 for who we were

00:22:41.620 while making us

00:22:43.120 better versions

00:22:43.820 of ourselves.

00:22:45.340 He was a devoted husband

00:22:46.960 and stepdad

00:22:48.180 who showed up

00:22:50.040 in so many ways.

00:22:51.960 He surprised us

00:22:52.920 one day

00:22:53.560 with having

00:22:54.700 our family picture

00:22:55.900 painted in a mural

00:22:57.400 he had at one

00:23:00.020 of his restaurants.

00:23:01.960 He was committed

00:23:03.620 to the family.

00:23:06.220 He always encouraged us

00:23:07.540 to build our talent stack.

00:23:09.300 Designing and building

00:23:10.260 our Dilbert home

00:23:11.360 gave me a big stack.

00:23:13.700 Scott's talent stack

00:23:15.400 grew

00:23:15.820 by being a huge

00:23:17.340 father figure,

00:23:18.400 role model,

00:23:19.420 supporter,

00:23:20.100 coach,

00:23:21.120 teacher,

00:23:21.740 entertainer,

00:23:22.640 jokester,

00:23:23.340 and much more.

00:23:24.460 He was very present

00:23:27.260 in all the kids'

00:23:28.360 interests and activities.

00:23:30.360 When the kids

00:23:31.260 got older

00:23:31.900 and the kids'

00:23:33.060 activities slowed down,

00:23:34.560 Scott felt

00:23:35.340 he was not needed

00:23:36.520 as much.

00:23:37.820 Wanting to find

00:23:38.780 a new purpose,

00:23:39.760 something bigger

00:23:40.520 than Dilbert.

00:23:42.260 He would work

00:23:43.260 in his office

00:23:43.820 trying to find

00:23:44.660 more meaning.

00:23:45.500 He knew he had

00:23:46.400 the capability

00:23:47.100 to help the world

00:23:48.320 in some way,

00:23:49.340 but that would

00:23:50.900 take all of

00:23:51.980 his time,

00:23:52.800 dedication,

00:23:53.360 to do it.

00:23:55.520 That would not

00:23:56.420 be the recipe

00:23:57.040 for a happy marriage.

00:23:59.260 I couldn't ask

00:24:00.380 Scott,

00:24:00.920 who meant

00:24:01.460 so much to me,

00:24:03.360 to not find

00:24:04.260 a way to use

00:24:05.400 all his ideas

00:24:06.400 and wisdom

00:24:06.980 for the greater good.

00:24:10.380 It was something

00:24:11.540 he felt

00:24:12.220 so strongly about

00:24:13.500 and really,

00:24:15.120 I knew he had

00:24:16.200 already decided.

00:24:17.960 He was going to

00:24:18.980 make an impact

00:24:19.700 on others

00:24:20.360 as he did for us.

00:24:22.820 We separated,

00:24:24.040 later divorced,

00:24:25.280 but he was always

00:24:26.160 my best friend,

00:24:27.880 still employer,

00:24:29.500 and the best stepdad

00:24:30.740 to my kids.

00:24:32.300 His decision

00:24:33.080 was one of his best.

00:24:35.300 His dedication

00:24:36.080 and presence

00:24:37.420 made an impact

00:24:38.500 on so many lives.

00:24:41.100 After Scott

00:24:42.060 found his path

00:24:43.020 and got settled

00:24:43.740 into his new purpose,

00:24:45.640 he was lucky enough

00:24:46.620 to marry again,

00:24:47.960 and although it ended,

00:24:49.540 it brought him happiness.

00:24:51.360 He gained

00:24:51.760 two more stepchildren,

00:24:53.720 Marin and Hazel,

00:24:55.340 who had the same opportunity

00:24:57.480 to learn and grow

00:24:58.460 from Scott

00:24:59.120 as we did.

00:25:01.080 I'm so grateful

00:25:02.260 for my life with Scott,

00:25:04.400 and now I have a purpose

00:25:06.400 to keep Scott's legacy alive,

00:25:09.460 and that will continue

00:25:11.000 to help me move forward.

00:25:13.020 You're all already

00:25:15.280 stepping up

00:25:16.080 and making my job easier,

00:25:18.860 spreading Scott's lessons

00:25:20.320 and wisdom

00:25:21.040 to the people

00:25:21.840 who might benefit from it.

00:25:24.240 I know we will continue

00:25:25.600 to work together

00:25:26.540 to keep Scott's legacy alive.

00:25:29.540 up next,

00:25:40.220 we have a message

00:25:43.160 from one of Scott's friends

00:25:45.000 who couldn't be here,

00:25:46.020 John Shumate.

00:25:46.980 My name is John Shumate,

00:25:52.520 and I just want to say

00:25:55.060 that Scott and I

00:25:57.120 play weekly tennis

00:25:58.540 for over a decade

00:25:59.440 in Pleasanton, California,

00:26:00.840 and coincidentally

00:26:03.100 that's where we both

00:26:04.080 met Shelly

00:26:04.720 about the same time.

00:26:07.020 And, you know,

00:26:08.300 Scott never once cheated

00:26:10.220 on line calls

00:26:11.100 like a lot of people

00:26:11.980 do in tennis,

00:26:13.760 and in fact,

00:26:14.680 he did just the opposite.

00:26:15.680 He would give away

00:26:16.540 any points that were,

00:26:17.900 like, questionable.

00:26:19.040 You always give them away,

00:26:20.320 and that was him.

00:26:24.120 You know,

00:26:24.340 that's just how good he was.

00:26:26.420 And I appreciate

00:26:27.840 the three points.

00:26:28.880 I wish I could say

00:26:29.620 that to him now.

00:26:31.040 But, you know,

00:26:32.160 my wife, Lorraine,

00:26:32.960 and I really miss Scott dearly,

00:26:35.180 and we're very happy

00:26:37.040 that Shelly was able

00:26:38.200 to jump in

00:26:39.820 at Scott's request

00:26:41.180 and to help

00:26:41.780 and get everything

00:26:43.200 in order here at the end.

00:26:45.320 And, you know,

00:26:47.200 Scott was always

00:26:48.160 so good to us

00:26:48.960 and everybody else

00:26:50.200 and we're going

00:26:51.920 to miss him a lot.

00:26:53.100 So that's all

00:26:54.980 I can say for now.

00:26:59.040 Up next,

00:27:00.440 one of Scott's friends,

00:27:02.020 Quinn Harker.

00:27:04.160 There you are.

00:27:04.960 Sorry.

00:27:08.240 Part of my system

00:27:09.280 is not being

00:27:10.500 the smartest guy

00:27:11.200 in the room this...

00:27:16.280 And thank you guys

00:27:17.560 for coming.

00:27:18.960 We had the good fortune

00:27:20.180 of meeting Scott

00:27:21.380 20 years ago

00:27:22.600 out on a soccer field.

00:27:24.320 Savannah's team,

00:27:25.240 our couple other family's

00:27:27.040 daughters in this room.

00:27:29.840 Those are okay.

00:27:30.700 Sorry about that.

00:27:31.720 To meet Scott.

00:27:33.900 Very unassuming.

00:27:36.240 White hat,

00:27:36.900 or his hat on,

00:27:37.880 pale skin,

00:27:38.580 like he never went outside,

00:27:39.880 but sitting in his lawn chair.

00:27:41.920 But didn't know who he was.

00:27:43.800 I was familiar with Dilbert,

00:27:45.600 but we didn't know who he was.

00:27:46.940 We just knew that

00:27:47.740 Shelly introduced us to him

00:27:49.220 and fortunately became part of...

00:27:52.600 He became part of her life,

00:27:54.320 but also became a huge part

00:27:56.300 of my life for 20 years.

00:27:57.960 I benefited greatly

00:27:59.200 from that friendship.

00:28:00.480 So as the time we met,

00:28:04.280 Scott was dealing

00:28:04.900 with his vocal issues.

00:28:06.960 Hadn't gone through

00:28:07.540 the procedure yet,

00:28:08.420 so he didn't talk much.

00:28:11.560 So you're all,

00:28:12.600 he's a comic,

00:28:13.320 but there's nothing there.

00:28:14.580 He must write funny,

00:28:15.580 but he doesn't,

00:28:16.180 there's no jokes coming out.

00:28:17.780 And so he made up

00:28:19.400 for lost time

00:28:20.360 following that procedure.

00:28:22.560 And obviously we benefited

00:28:24.320 from a lot of great wisdom

00:28:25.460 as that came through.

00:28:28.040 Like you guys,

00:28:29.120 I knew Scott

00:28:29.800 from the public side.

00:28:30.880 I got to know the comic,

00:28:34.140 the publicist,

00:28:35.420 the podcaster,

00:28:36.420 the blogger,

00:28:37.040 all those kind of things.

00:28:38.980 But one thing

00:28:39.600 I want to share with you guys

00:28:40.800 and make sure,

00:28:41.520 especially...

00:28:44.440 Hazel and Marin

00:28:46.740 and Justin and Jacob

00:28:48.920 as you joined the family.

00:28:53.600 There was nothing more important

00:28:55.460 than you guys to him.

00:28:57.960 He was a husband.

00:28:58.960 He was an ex-husband.

00:28:59.960 He was a father.

00:29:02.360 Very good friend.

00:29:04.320 And you guys

00:29:04.980 were extremely motivating

00:29:06.480 behind the scenes

00:29:07.740 to what he wanted

00:29:08.740 to achieve.

00:29:11.960 How to fail.

00:29:14.120 Written as much

00:29:15.220 for Justin

00:29:15.840 as anybody in the world.

00:29:17.820 We all benefited.

00:29:19.340 But I sat with him

00:29:20.680 and when he was,

00:29:21.540 you know,

00:29:22.280 prepping that book together,

00:29:24.120 it was about

00:29:25.340 how do I help those with me.

00:29:27.980 Shelly, you nailed it.

00:29:29.060 You gave him

00:29:29.740 such a place of belonging.

00:29:31.320 And he protected that

00:29:33.600 with everything.

00:29:35.420 Behind the scenes,

00:29:36.580 it was a vulnerable guy.

00:29:38.640 He was competitive

00:29:39.360 but very vulnerable.

00:29:40.940 And he loved you guys dearly.

00:29:43.240 He wanted to make you proud.

00:29:45.460 That was the thing.

00:29:46.660 And he held on

00:29:47.560 no matter what.

00:29:49.000 Marriages ended.

00:29:50.140 You were part of his life.

00:29:51.760 And he loved you.

00:29:52.400 And despite all

00:29:55.800 that public attention,

00:29:56.860 obviously he was there

00:29:57.720 for you guys.

00:29:58.400 So that was,

00:29:59.580 he had an amazing

00:30:00.520 successful career.

00:30:02.060 Influenced us a lot.

00:30:03.620 And to Shelly.

00:30:06.220 Your loyalty

00:30:07.120 to that guy.

00:30:10.040 Biggest engine.

00:30:11.740 I mean,

00:30:12.240 it was incredible.

00:30:14.020 Your steadiness.

00:30:15.140 Pat,

00:30:15.780 the family,

00:30:16.720 you guys

00:30:17.320 gave him

00:30:18.420 that place of belonging.

00:30:20.200 He loved you.

00:30:21.080 That's the most important thing.

00:30:23.020 He lived for you guys.

00:30:27.700 Many of you will know

00:30:28.860 that Scott shared

00:30:29.840 the arc of life.

00:30:33.540 Selfish at the beginning

00:30:34.680 as a kid

00:30:35.340 and then you go.

00:30:36.800 He put so much focus

00:30:38.160 on that last part

00:30:39.100 of his arc

00:30:39.600 that we all benefited from.

00:30:44.480 Dedicated himself

00:30:45.320 to giving away

00:30:45.960 his wisdom,

00:30:47.160 his lessons,

00:30:47.880 successes

00:30:49.380 and failures.

00:30:50.360 How can I pass

00:30:51.240 something along?

00:30:54.160 Anything that might

00:30:55.180 help somebody else.

00:30:57.140 Way of point.

00:30:58.380 Joel,

00:30:58.780 you spoke well.

00:30:59.820 It was wonderful

00:31:00.400 to hear

00:31:00.840 that summary

00:31:02.060 of his life

00:31:02.820 because he lived

00:31:04.100 it behind the scenes.

00:31:06.420 He poured himself

00:31:07.540 into his ideas,

00:31:09.580 gave tools,

00:31:10.660 micro lessons.

00:31:11.560 He was an amazing thinker.

00:31:12.820 I've never hung out

00:31:13.480 with anybody

00:31:14.020 that's a Mensa guy

00:31:14.880 before.

00:31:15.980 So it was really amazing.

00:31:17.880 And he would be

00:31:18.820 as creative as ever.

00:31:20.740 I still remember

00:31:21.360 when he created

00:31:21.940 a double-sided whiteboard.

00:31:24.540 The first,

00:31:25.440 you guys didn't see

00:31:26.420 the first version.

00:31:27.340 The first version

00:31:28.160 had some clips on it,

00:31:29.660 wasn't bolted together.

00:31:31.080 But his creativity level

00:31:32.740 was amazing.

00:31:34.780 He was an amazing mentor

00:31:35.980 to me

00:31:36.620 as much as a friend.

00:31:39.220 We shared a lot

00:31:40.380 behind the scenes,

00:31:42.020 tennis matches.

00:31:42.700 I was reminded

00:31:44.660 about losing

00:31:45.320 the ping-pong

00:31:46.080 to a 68-year-old man

00:31:47.720 who's on cancer medication

00:31:49.240 and painkillers

00:31:50.160 and can't feel

00:31:51.120 his lower body.

00:31:51.980 But I won some,

00:31:54.260 but not much.

00:31:58.120 So when we talk

00:31:59.100 about his legacy,

00:32:00.920 it isn't only

00:32:02.720 what he produced.

00:32:04.580 It's what he hoped

00:32:06.000 would happen

00:32:06.700 and what would awaken

00:32:08.440 within people

00:32:09.680 that he shared those with

00:32:10.880 and took it to heart.

00:32:15.740 Well, the sippers,

00:32:17.620 the influencers,

00:32:18.640 followers,

00:32:19.700 and the internet dads,

00:32:21.680 you brought them

00:32:22.260 joy and inspiration.

00:32:24.100 You gave them community,

00:32:26.320 friendship,

00:32:27.680 and meaning

00:32:30.080 all the way

00:32:30.940 to his last day.

00:32:33.880 A reciprocity

00:32:34.720 in action.

00:32:36.760 I know he loved you guys

00:32:38.200 for that.

00:32:38.760 Thank you.

00:32:40.880 To close,

00:32:43.540 I want to share

00:32:44.020 a personal note.

00:32:46.620 Scott's view

00:32:47.260 of the world

00:32:47.740 and my faith

00:32:48.560 in Jesus Christ

00:32:49.660 was no secret

00:32:51.560 throughout our friendship

00:32:52.480 and never a point

00:32:54.100 of contention.

00:32:55.040 There was no judgment

00:32:55.880 in that man

00:32:56.500 when I talked to him.

00:32:58.180 I have no more

00:32:59.340 loyal relationship

00:33:00.460 than with that man.

00:33:03.260 We talked often,

00:33:05.500 especially following

00:33:06.300 the diagnosis,

00:33:08.220 when Scott being Scott

00:33:09.840 told me we're

00:33:11.080 in his garage,

00:33:12.000 man cave,

00:33:12.640 whatever you want

00:33:13.080 to call it,

00:33:14.460 looks at me

00:33:15.500 and says,

00:33:16.100 this is going

00:33:16.820 to be harder

00:33:17.280 on you

00:33:17.760 than it is on me.

00:33:20.780 Shared the news

00:33:21.540 with me.

00:33:23.020 We talked often,

00:33:25.000 especially again

00:33:26.000 after his diagnosis,

00:33:27.260 about who's running

00:33:28.340 the simulation.

00:33:30.800 For those of you

00:33:31.780 who shared your faith

00:33:32.680 with him,

00:33:33.840 thank you.

00:33:35.780 Scott fought

00:33:36.520 to the end

00:33:37.120 and the decision

00:33:38.120 he made to accept

00:33:38.980 Jesus Christ

00:33:39.760 brings peace.

00:33:42.780 I believe God's love

00:33:44.040 and grace

00:33:44.560 pursues us relentlessly

00:33:45.880 into the edge

00:33:48.000 of eternity

00:33:48.560 and offers us

00:33:50.380 life after death.

00:33:52.360 I pray that

00:33:52.960 for each of you

00:33:53.520 as well.

00:33:56.580 Scott was uniquely

00:33:57.700 and wonderfully made.

00:33:59.660 I am so very grateful

00:34:00.900 for all that he gave me.

00:34:02.980 Thank you for listening.

00:34:03.980 God bless.

00:34:04.380 That was pretty smart

00:34:13.800 if you ask me.

00:34:15.440 You reminded me

00:34:16.360 of when Scott

00:34:17.840 was on my show.

00:34:19.280 I introed him

00:34:20.160 as Scott so smart

00:34:21.880 that Mensa

00:34:22.640 joined him.

00:34:27.100 So next up

00:34:28.060 we have Dave Adams

00:34:29.280 visiting us

00:34:31.420 with a message.

00:34:34.380 What I treasure most

00:34:36.160 about my brother Scott

00:34:37.660 is the laughter

00:34:38.860 we shared.

00:34:40.240 When we talked

00:34:41.220 on the phone

00:34:41.820 my wife always knew

00:34:43.160 I was talking to Scott

00:34:44.300 because of all the laughter

00:34:46.140 and our ability

00:34:47.340 to get each other going.

00:34:49.700 It didn't matter

00:34:50.420 what happened

00:34:51.600 in our lives

00:34:52.380 good or bad

00:34:53.660 we shared our stories

00:34:55.520 that were sometimes

00:34:56.840 embarrassing.

00:34:58.240 The kind of things

00:34:59.160 that perhaps

00:35:00.400 you should

00:35:01.120 keep to yourself.

00:35:02.260 it didn't matter

00:35:03.800 if it was funny

00:35:05.120 or amusing

00:35:06.080 share we did.

00:35:08.820 Scott brought

00:35:09.400 that quality

00:35:10.200 to his podcast.

00:35:11.820 If it was funny

00:35:12.620 or amusing

00:35:13.800 he shared it

00:35:15.120 with us.

00:35:16.100 His lack

00:35:16.740 of embarrassment

00:35:17.560 was a humanizing

00:35:19.200 superpower.

00:35:21.060 He could find

00:35:21.880 a nugget of gold

00:35:22.960 in everything.

00:35:24.840 An insight

00:35:25.540 life lesson

00:35:26.920 absurdity

00:35:28.100 and especially

00:35:29.460 laughter.

00:35:31.760 Scott's legacy

00:35:32.700 his gift

00:35:33.940 to us all

00:35:34.680 is his massive

00:35:36.200 life's work.

00:35:37.980 Cartoonist

00:35:38.700 author

00:35:39.860 avatar

00:35:41.080 the world

00:35:42.700 is a better place

00:35:43.800 because you were here bro.

00:35:49.840 Next up

00:35:50.880 Stefan Pestis

00:35:51.700 tomorrow

00:36:05.680 I will get up

00:36:07.460 and I will drive

00:36:09.120 to a cafe

00:36:10.020 and I will write

00:36:11.940 a comic strip

00:36:12.920 called Pearls

00:36:14.820 Before Swine

00:36:15.620 and I will try

00:36:17.160 to make people laugh

00:36:18.500 as I have done

00:36:19.600 every day

00:36:20.200 for almost 25 years now

00:36:21.880 and that

00:36:23.320 is all

00:36:24.420 due to Scott

00:36:25.620 because 25 years ago

00:36:27.680 I was a litigation

00:36:28.840 attorney

00:36:29.460 in San Francisco

00:36:30.880 who hated his job

00:36:32.240 so I would draw

00:36:33.780 at night

00:36:34.460 and on weekends

00:36:35.460 in the hopes

00:36:36.120 of quitting the law

00:36:37.080 and becoming

00:36:38.120 a syndicated cartoonist

00:36:39.500 but

00:36:39.780 as with every cartoonist

00:36:42.280 everything I submitted

00:36:43.760 was rejected

00:36:44.660 by everyone.

00:36:47.340 So on my lunch breaks

00:36:48.500 at my law firm

00:36:49.380 I went to a bookstore

00:36:50.740 in the Embarcadero

00:36:51.860 and I sat there

00:36:53.060 on the floor

00:36:53.700 in my suit and tie

00:36:55.080 and I studied

00:36:57.040 the best

00:36:57.560 and most popular

00:36:58.420 strip around

00:36:59.380 and that was Dilbert

00:37:00.760 and I learned

00:37:02.440 everything

00:37:03.060 I possibly could

00:37:04.540 about how you write

00:37:05.560 a three panel

00:37:06.260 comic strip

00:37:07.040 how to remove

00:37:08.340 every unnecessary word

00:37:09.820 how to remove

00:37:10.800 every unnecessary line

00:37:12.240 and how to bring

00:37:13.520 to the comic

00:37:14.140 that same blunt

00:37:15.300 inappropriate tone

00:37:16.520 that you would use

00:37:17.380 in a note

00:37:18.140 you pass

00:37:18.700 in high school

00:37:19.320 and I tried

00:37:20.740 with the syndicates

00:37:21.540 again after that

00:37:22.580 and after years

00:37:23.780 of getting only rejections

00:37:25.100 I got signed

00:37:26.360 by United Media

00:37:27.400 the same company

00:37:28.660 that syndicated Dilbert

00:37:29.800 but then

00:37:31.760 in the same

00:37:32.360 in the kind of

00:37:33.300 goofy corporate twist

00:37:35.380 that Scott would write

00:37:36.260 about in Dilbert

00:37:37.000 a salesman

00:37:38.260 at United

00:37:38.820 said there was

00:37:39.920 no way

00:37:40.580 any newspaper

00:37:41.600 would ever buy

00:37:42.580 pearls

00:37:43.100 it had no demographic

00:37:44.780 it was about

00:37:45.740 a stick figure

00:37:46.480 rat and pig

00:37:47.620 who never moved

00:37:48.880 and mostly talked

00:37:49.820 about death

00:37:50.580 so the same syndicate

00:37:52.600 that signed me

00:37:53.520 cancelled me

00:37:54.500 my career ended

00:37:55.920 before it started

00:37:57.180 and suddenly

00:37:58.220 I was back

00:37:59.080 to being a lawyer

00:38:00.040 for life

00:38:00.760 enter Scott

00:38:03.220 the very cartoonist

00:38:05.320 whose work

00:38:05.900 I had studied

00:38:06.720 but did not yet

00:38:07.640 know personally

00:38:08.580 saw the strip

00:38:09.980 online

00:38:10.600 and told all

00:38:11.680 of his fans

00:38:12.300 that he loved it

00:38:13.160 and to go read it

00:38:14.440 I remember

00:38:15.760 running upstairs

00:38:16.580 and saying to my wife

00:38:17.760 I don't know

00:38:19.160 if I'll ever make it

00:38:19.940 in this field

00:38:20.580 but if I do

00:38:22.060 this was my big break

00:38:23.760 and it was

00:38:25.400 the hits

00:38:26.460 for my comic strip

00:38:27.460 went from

00:38:28.060 2,000 on a Tuesday

00:38:29.500 to 155,000

00:38:31.860 on a Wednesday

00:38:32.700 that was the power

00:38:34.760 of Scott

00:38:35.460 and 25 years later

00:38:37.720 pearls before swine

00:38:39.020 is in almost

00:38:39.860 1,000 newspapers

00:38:40.900 now let me tell you

00:38:42.780 something you might

00:38:43.480 not know

00:38:44.440 which is

00:38:45.040 how generous

00:38:46.200 what Scott did

00:38:47.620 is in my particular

00:38:48.960 field

00:38:49.460 because syndicated

00:38:50.500 cartooning

00:38:51.540 is not like

00:38:52.120 publishing

00:38:52.600 say fiction books

00:38:54.360 where you'll happily

00:38:55.440 give a blurb

00:38:56.380 to a fellow writer

00:38:57.520 because many books

00:38:58.500 can be successful

00:38:59.360 all at once

00:39:00.320 in newspaper comics

00:39:02.840 a cartoonist

00:39:03.980 can only succeed

00:39:05.040 by knocking

00:39:06.000 someone else's comic

00:39:07.320 out of the newspaper

00:39:08.360 so when you endorse

00:39:09.920 someone

00:39:10.480 particularly

00:39:11.380 who's in the same

00:39:12.360 genre of comics

00:39:13.360 as you

00:39:13.840 you are building

00:39:15.120 a competitor

00:39:16.060 who could one day

00:39:17.460 knock you out

00:39:18.180 of newspapers

00:39:18.880 Scott

00:39:20.700 did it anyways

00:39:21.980 but that wasn't

00:39:23.880 the end of his help

00:39:24.680 because in 2003

00:39:26.140 in just the second

00:39:27.020 year of my strip

00:39:27.900 Scott offered me

00:39:29.240 the biggest opportunity

00:39:30.380 he possibly could have

00:39:31.600 asking me

00:39:33.060 if I wanted to draw

00:39:34.100 Dilbert for a day

00:39:35.200 something that would

00:39:36.820 give me way more

00:39:37.580 exposure than I

00:39:38.540 had ever had before

00:39:39.680 so of course

00:39:40.880 I said yes

00:39:41.640 and I asked him

00:39:42.920 are there any

00:39:44.040 limitations

00:39:44.540 and Scott said no

00:39:46.500 so I proceeded

00:39:48.060 to draw a strip

00:39:48.980 where Dilbert ran

00:39:50.360 with scissors

00:39:50.920 and died

00:39:51.680 theoretically ending

00:39:57.780 Scott's comic

00:39:58.620 you can't have Dilbert

00:40:01.760 without Dilbert

00:40:02.520 thereby opening

00:40:03.980 all 2300 of Scott's

00:40:05.620 newspaper slots

00:40:06.460 to Pearls Before Swine

00:40:07.740 that's how I chose

00:40:10.460 to repay my mentor

00:40:11.700 as the years passed

00:40:15.580 Scott and I became

00:40:16.440 friends

00:40:16.880 and when I went

00:40:17.420 to his house

00:40:18.020 I was still trying

00:40:19.060 to learn everything

00:40:19.940 I could

00:40:20.460 peppering him

00:40:21.060 with one question

00:40:21.860 after another

00:40:22.560 like when I asked

00:40:23.700 him one time

00:40:24.340 how do you manage

00:40:25.360 to be so funny

00:40:26.360 in your books

00:40:27.480 and Scott said

00:40:28.900 I try to make

00:40:30.360 my brother laugh

00:40:31.260 so simple

00:40:33.320 but so brilliant

00:40:34.880 because when you

00:40:35.600 write comedy

00:40:36.180 for a living

00:40:36.760 you often find

00:40:38.100 yourself trying

00:40:38.960 to please

00:40:39.600 this amorphous

00:40:40.740 mass of people

00:40:41.720 and when you do

00:40:43.280 you end up

00:40:43.800 pleasing no one

00:40:44.680 so instead

00:40:45.660 make one person

00:40:46.780 you know laugh

00:40:47.820 and I have followed

00:40:49.540 that advice

00:40:50.500 in every book

00:40:51.320 I have published

00:40:52.080 since

00:40:52.500 and that was the

00:40:54.000 thing about Scott's

00:40:54.700 advice

00:40:55.020 it did not consist

00:40:56.160 of the usual

00:40:57.120 platitudes

00:40:57.800 that other successful

00:40:58.800 people might give you

00:41:00.360 he was willing

00:41:01.540 as I often told him

00:41:03.140 to give away

00:41:04.480 the keys

00:41:05.060 to the kingdom

00:41:05.700 but you had to listen

00:41:07.680 and I listened

00:41:09.260 as he told me

00:41:10.540 when I saw him

00:41:11.100 a few weeks ago

00:41:11.840 and he reminded me

00:41:12.700 of the time

00:41:13.300 I met him

00:41:14.140 at his restaurant

00:41:14.740 and asked him

00:41:15.540 questions for two hours

00:41:16.760 he said

00:41:17.920 you wrote down

00:41:19.080 every single thing

00:41:20.060 I said for two hours

00:41:21.320 I don't think

00:41:22.440 anyone else

00:41:22.960 ever took it that far

00:41:24.020 and then there was

00:41:26.160 the more specific

00:41:26.920 advice he gave me

00:41:27.860 about writing

00:41:28.400 a comic strip

00:41:29.140 like the time

00:41:30.160 he told me

00:41:30.720 if you have a really

00:41:32.240 dirty strip

00:41:33.020 you want to get past

00:41:34.280 the syndicate

00:41:34.800 and into newspapers

00:41:35.840 create a second

00:41:37.840 even dirtier strip

00:41:39.460 you have no intention

00:41:41.380 of running

00:41:41.840 and send them in together

00:41:43.480 the syndicate

00:41:44.660 will fight you

00:41:45.360 like crazy

00:41:46.340 on the really dirty one

00:41:47.500 and the one

00:41:48.380 you want to run

00:41:49.000 will slip by

00:41:49.860 unnoticed

00:41:50.520 that's the kind

00:41:51.800 of guru

00:41:52.220 Scott could be

00:41:53.040 in fact

00:41:54.760 Scott would rarely

00:41:55.620 email me

00:41:56.200 to tell me

00:41:56.640 a particular strip

00:41:57.500 was good

00:41:58.000 but if it was dirty

00:41:59.820 and I got it published

00:42:01.180 Scott was like

00:42:02.320 a proud father

00:42:03.200 like the time

00:42:07.620 I had my main

00:42:08.480 character rat

00:42:09.460 tell someone

00:42:10.340 in a restaurant

00:42:10.960 to eat shit

00:42:12.240 talkie mushrooms

00:42:13.240 Scott thought

00:42:15.500 that was awe-inspiring

00:42:16.660 but if you knew

00:42:18.680 Scott

00:42:19.100 you also knew

00:42:20.320 he was very competitive

00:42:21.700 which meant

00:42:22.940 he had to top it

00:42:24.120 the student

00:42:25.180 could not eclipse

00:42:26.120 the teacher

00:42:26.640 so Scott emailed me

00:42:28.740 February 7th

00:42:30.620 2014

00:42:31.320 no greeting

00:42:33.180 no how are you

00:42:34.140 just quote

00:42:35.120 if you look at the top

00:42:36.880 of Alice's hair

00:42:37.880 the very top

00:42:39.180 you'll see

00:42:40.160 it's a penis

00:42:40.860 and balls

00:42:41.620 we were like

00:42:49.760 two adolescents

00:42:50.460 passing inappropriate

00:42:51.500 notes in class

00:42:52.580 except we were

00:42:53.800 doing it in newspapers

00:42:54.800 in front of 50 million

00:42:55.940 people

00:42:56.440 November 20th

00:42:59.480 2009

00:43:00.160 email from Scott

00:43:01.340 once again

00:43:02.400 no greeting

00:43:03.100 no how are you

00:43:04.080 just

00:43:04.660 I said poop

00:43:06.800 in today's comic

00:43:07.880 next stop

00:43:09.300 Alice blows

00:43:10.240 Wall-E

00:43:14.840 or this one

00:43:15.580 from July 7th

00:43:16.840 2014

00:43:17.380 when Calvin and Hobbes

00:43:18.560 creator

00:43:18.920 Bill Watterson

00:43:19.660 came out of retirement

00:43:20.600 to draw my strip

00:43:21.620 on the condition

00:43:22.760 that I keep

00:43:23.440 Bill's involvement

00:43:24.640 a secret

00:43:25.260 until the strips

00:43:26.400 were published

00:43:27.020 which I did

00:43:27.960 so Scott wrote to me

00:43:29.540 once again

00:43:30.400 no greeting

00:43:31.420 no how are you

00:43:32.520 just

00:43:33.160 quote

00:43:33.920 clearly you can

00:43:35.340 keep a secret

00:43:35.980 so I might as well

00:43:37.620 tell you

00:43:38.060 I stabbed a hobo

00:43:39.760 by the way

00:43:44.340 when Scott wrote

00:43:45.100 something like that

00:43:45.900 he never added

00:43:46.600 the ha ha ha

00:43:47.460 that normal people

00:43:48.260 add

00:43:48.640 which always

00:43:50.580 left you to wonder

00:43:51.360 did he stab a hobo

00:43:53.040 and in person

00:43:57.200 Scott could say

00:43:57.980 some equally

00:43:58.940 wild stuff

00:44:00.160 like the time

00:44:01.680 we were in his kitchen

00:44:02.440 and he was talking

00:44:03.080 about how much

00:44:03.700 smarter he was

00:44:04.460 than his parents

00:44:05.200 so much so

00:44:06.660 that he sometimes

00:44:07.400 wondered

00:44:07.880 if he wasn't

00:44:08.820 born the usual way

00:44:10.100 but instead

00:44:11.380 had been given

00:44:11.920 to his parents

00:44:12.700 by aliens

00:44:13.700 I laughed

00:44:15.980 then I looked up

00:44:17.520 guess who

00:44:18.680 wasn't laughing

00:44:19.420 which brings me

00:44:23.500 to one last thing

00:44:24.380 when I post publicly

00:44:25.500 about how much

00:44:26.400 Scott has meant to me

00:44:27.580 I hear from

00:44:28.660 a lot of people

00:44:29.380 who are familiar

00:44:30.060 from Scott

00:44:30.720 familiar with Scott

00:44:32.040 primarily from

00:44:32.920 his more political stuff

00:44:34.060 and because of all that

00:44:35.980 as you might expect

00:44:37.400 in this era

00:44:38.280 some of them

00:44:39.440 have less than

00:44:40.160 kind things to say

00:44:41.360 and then they have

00:44:42.440 a lot of questions

00:44:43.100 for me

00:44:43.600 wondering if I share

00:44:45.040 his politics

00:44:45.620 and some of his viewpoints

00:44:46.900 I don't respond

00:44:47.960 to that stuff

00:44:48.520 but if I did

00:44:49.300 this is what

00:44:50.680 I would have said

00:44:51.260 I could count

00:44:53.920 on one hand

00:44:54.560 the number of

00:44:55.140 political topics

00:44:55.980 Scott and I

00:44:56.600 would have agreed upon

00:44:57.400 and I disagreed

00:44:58.860 with a lot of

00:44:59.480 the stuff he said

00:45:00.280 but it's okay

00:45:02.060 to have people

00:45:02.660 in your life

00:45:03.120 you don't agree with

00:45:03.900 I need more

00:45:05.260 of those relationships

00:45:06.120 in my life

00:45:06.960 not less

00:45:07.800 how are we going

00:45:08.720 to get anywhere

00:45:09.240 if we don't talk

00:45:10.100 and besides

00:45:11.460 sometimes

00:45:12.040 all we need

00:45:12.760 is a friend

00:45:13.260 to stand with us

00:45:14.100 in our kitchen

00:45:14.660 and tell us

00:45:15.860 we were probably

00:45:17.020 not put here

00:45:17.760 by aliens

00:45:18.580 but also

00:45:20.880 you should know

00:45:21.420 this about Scott

00:45:22.280 every year

00:45:24.620 I would email him

00:45:25.640 or text him

00:45:26.360 and thank him

00:45:27.100 for giving me

00:45:27.940 a career

00:45:28.620 offering to pay him

00:45:29.800 back in any way

00:45:30.800 I could

00:45:31.340 including mowing

00:45:32.560 his lawn

00:45:33.340 or washing

00:45:33.960 his windows

00:45:34.800 and do you know

00:45:36.040 what Scott said

00:45:37.020 every time

00:45:38.360 in response

00:45:39.020 pay it forward

00:45:40.960 go out

00:45:42.640 and help

00:45:42.980 somebody else

00:45:43.800 anybody else

00:45:45.920 that was Scott

00:45:47.280 too

00:45:47.540 more importantly

00:45:49.920 there was so much

00:45:50.700 Scott and I

00:45:51.380 did share

00:45:52.000 we were both

00:45:53.680 geeky kids

00:45:54.520 with glasses

00:45:55.180 from small towns

00:45:56.340 who each headed

00:45:57.440 to San Francisco

00:45:58.300 worked for corporations

00:45:59.900 did not like

00:46:00.920 working for those

00:46:01.580 corporations

00:46:02.140 and weren't

00:46:03.000 particularly good

00:46:03.780 at drawing

00:46:04.280 leading us both

00:46:05.880 to the same

00:46:06.600 logical conclusion

00:46:07.720 we should make

00:46:09.420 a living drawing

00:46:10.180 and it worked

00:46:12.620 Scott led

00:46:13.840 I followed

00:46:14.800 no him

00:46:15.660 no me

00:46:16.400 which is why

00:46:19.520 a few weeks ago

00:46:20.340 when I heard

00:46:20.840 he didn't have

00:46:21.300 much time left

00:46:22.300 I asked him

00:46:23.360 if I could come

00:46:23.920 by the house

00:46:24.440 and say goodbye

00:46:25.120 and he said yes

00:46:26.520 so I drove here

00:46:27.660 to Pleasanton

00:46:28.360 and saw him there

00:46:29.980 in his bed

00:46:30.580 in his living room

00:46:31.620 we joked about

00:46:32.840 all the stuff

00:46:33.460 I just told you

00:46:34.640 and we talked

00:46:36.480 about one more thing

00:46:37.380 I told him

00:46:40.080 one last time

00:46:41.160 how much

00:46:41.680 I owed him

00:46:42.540 and once again

00:46:43.900 offered to

00:46:44.540 clean his windows

00:46:45.620 but instead

00:46:47.200 of his usual

00:46:47.960 response

00:46:48.660 he replied

00:46:49.880 that he did

00:46:51.040 have something

00:46:51.600 to ask of me

00:46:53.000 which he had

00:46:54.440 never said

00:46:54.900 so surprised

00:46:56.500 I said

00:46:57.100 whatever you want

00:46:58.960 man

00:46:59.180 you know

00:46:59.400 I owe you

00:46:59.840 everything

00:47:00.300 and he said

00:47:02.860 there was

00:47:03.780 a writer

00:47:04.420 doing his

00:47:05.140 biography

00:47:05.660 and asked

00:47:07.160 would you

00:47:08.240 write the

00:47:08.580 introduction

00:47:09.060 a human

00:47:12.160 part of me

00:47:12.660 started to

00:47:13.360 cry

00:47:13.760 the cartoonist

00:47:15.340 in me replied

00:47:16.080 sorry dude

00:47:16.780 I got no

00:47:17.400 time for you

00:47:18.420 Scott laughed

00:47:22.600 I loved

00:47:23.800 making him

00:47:24.200 laugh

00:47:24.540 and then

00:47:25.300 I said

00:47:25.620 of course

00:47:26.020 man

00:47:26.300 it would

00:47:26.500 be an

00:47:26.760 honor

00:47:26.980 so then

00:47:28.840 I held

00:47:29.160 his hand

00:47:29.580 and I said

00:47:29.980 thank you

00:47:30.520 I wanted

00:47:31.580 to hug

00:47:31.960 him

00:47:32.100 but he

00:47:32.720 had those

00:47:33.060 hospital beds

00:47:33.820 on either

00:47:34.280 side of

00:47:34.720 him

00:47:34.860 so I

00:47:35.540 couldn't

00:47:35.740 get to

00:47:36.080 him

00:47:36.260 looking

00:47:36.900 back

00:47:37.180 on it

00:47:37.440 I think

00:47:37.720 he put

00:47:38.000 them there

00:47:38.300 on purpose

00:47:38.860 but he

00:47:40.640 looked back

00:47:41.040 at me

00:47:41.320 and with

00:47:41.580 what looked

00:47:41.980 like tears

00:47:42.640 welling up

00:47:43.260 in the bottom

00:47:43.740 of his

00:47:44.080 eyes

00:47:44.500 he said

00:47:45.100 you're

00:47:46.620 welcome

00:47:46.880 then just

00:47:49.640 days later

00:47:50.200 I heard

00:47:50.500 from Shelly

00:47:51.060 as we all

00:47:51.560 did that

00:47:52.100 Scott was

00:47:53.220 no longer

00:47:53.760 with us

00:47:54.420 but because

00:47:56.300 he once

00:47:56.720 was

00:47:57.260 tomorrow

00:47:58.660 I will

00:47:59.860 get up

00:48:00.320 I will

00:48:01.360 drive to

00:48:01.760 a cafe

00:48:02.180 and I will

00:48:03.260 write a comic

00:48:03.800 strip

00:48:04.080 thank you

00:48:04.980 next up

00:48:13.860 is me

00:48:14.720 so

00:48:17.800 yeah I'm

00:48:20.660 not gonna

00:48:20.900 lie

00:48:21.040 I do

00:48:21.340 I talk

00:48:22.300 for a living

00:48:22.820 but stuff

00:48:23.580 like this

00:48:23.980 makes me

00:48:24.340 pretty nervous

00:48:25.020 I don't

00:48:26.180 know why

00:48:26.480 it's so

00:48:26.780 easy for

00:48:27.160 me to

00:48:27.440 do

00:48:27.700 to

00:48:28.160 talk to

00:48:29.160 millions

00:48:29.540 of people

00:48:30.060 but

00:48:30.480 this is

00:48:31.820 always

00:48:32.120 harder

00:48:32.620 and when

00:48:33.220 people say

00:48:33.820 that they're

00:48:34.160 nervous about

00:48:34.760 doing this

00:48:35.620 stuff

00:48:35.960 so am I

00:48:38.980 but what's

00:48:40.620 interesting

00:48:41.000 for me

00:48:42.120 is how

00:48:42.620 Scott Adams

00:48:43.420 prepared me

00:48:44.380 to speak

00:48:45.240 at his

00:48:45.500 own funeral

00:48:46.140 you know

00:48:47.400 I think

00:48:47.820 about

00:48:48.200 I've known

00:48:48.840 him for

00:48:49.180 10 years

00:48:50.320 10 years

00:48:52.420 ago

00:48:52.700 my mom

00:48:53.260 passed

00:48:53.780 and I

00:48:54.740 wonder

00:48:54.960 I was

00:48:55.220 thinking

00:48:55.460 about her

00:48:55.880 funeral

00:48:56.220 and whether

00:48:56.620 or not

00:48:56.880 I was

00:48:57.160 truly there

00:48:57.920 for her

00:48:58.560 you know

00:48:59.560 maybe I

00:48:59.960 was

00:49:00.260 maybe I

00:49:00.680 wasn't

00:49:01.020 I had

00:49:01.340 a lot

00:49:01.700 of anxiety

00:49:02.280 a lot

00:49:02.660 of ego

00:49:03.080 a lot

00:49:03.480 of self

00:49:03.820 doubt

00:49:04.060 and definitely

00:49:04.840 a lot

00:49:05.260 of drinking

00:49:05.800 and here

00:49:07.080 I am

00:49:07.340 10 years

00:49:07.720 later

00:49:08.020 I'm at

00:49:08.480 Scott's

00:49:09.500 funeral

00:49:09.740 and I'm

00:49:10.300 completely

00:49:10.840 100%

00:49:11.660 here for

00:49:12.360 him

00:49:12.740 he prepared

00:49:14.640 me

00:49:14.960 he made

00:49:15.740 me a better

00:49:16.140 person

00:49:16.520 over 10

00:49:17.020 years

00:49:17.440 and I

00:49:18.280 thought

00:49:18.560 of the

00:49:18.840 things

00:49:19.320 that got

00:49:20.440 me to

00:49:20.780 the point

00:49:21.220 where I

00:49:21.540 could talk

00:49:22.220 at somebody's

00:49:23.800 funeral

00:49:24.080 without getting

00:49:24.660 drunk

00:49:25.120 the basket

00:49:27.120 case

00:49:27.500 theory

00:49:27.940 which is

00:49:29.880 one of

00:49:30.520 Scott's

00:49:30.960 great theories

00:49:31.560 is that

00:49:31.980 whenever you

00:49:32.500 enter a

00:49:32.940 room

00:49:33.220 or you

00:49:33.980 have to

00:49:34.320 do

00:49:34.520 something

00:49:35.040 and you're

00:49:35.740 surrounded

00:49:36.040 by unfamiliar

00:49:36.760 people

00:49:37.240 maybe you're

00:49:37.680 going into

00:49:38.100 a bar

00:49:38.620 just remember

00:49:40.640 that everyone

00:49:41.520 in there

00:49:42.080 is a basket

00:49:42.800 case

00:49:43.280 just like

00:49:44.120 you

00:49:44.420 and no

00:49:45.780 one thinks

00:49:46.480 about you

00:49:47.060 more than

00:49:47.580 you

00:49:47.960 everybody's

00:49:49.060 got problems

00:49:49.800 so when you

00:49:51.100 go in

00:49:51.480 and I'm

00:49:51.760 speaking here

00:49:52.340 I realize

00:49:53.020 you know

00:49:53.380 what

00:49:53.680 even if I

00:49:54.840 do a

00:49:55.080 terrible job

00:49:55.820 you guys

00:49:56.260 are happy

00:49:56.720 it's not

00:49:57.100 you

00:49:57.340 he had

00:50:02.660 a really

00:50:02.900 simple

00:50:03.240 framing

00:50:03.700 that

00:50:03.980 sounds

00:50:04.460 so simple

00:50:05.040 that it

00:50:05.720 seems stupid

00:50:06.300 but replacing

00:50:07.080 effort

00:50:07.600 with reward

00:50:08.580 it was a

00:50:10.260 way to get

00:50:10.640 over laziness

00:50:11.480 or procrastination

00:50:13.460 or just anxiety

00:50:14.500 about doing

00:50:15.020 something

00:50:15.360 so let's

00:50:15.860 say I

00:50:16.080 didn't want

00:50:16.560 to do

00:50:16.900 this

00:50:17.260 I could

00:50:17.880 have come

00:50:18.140 up with

00:50:18.380 a lot

00:50:18.640 of excuses

00:50:19.300 because I

00:50:21.280 didn't want

00:50:21.640 to do

00:50:21.840 the effort

00:50:22.400 you know

00:50:22.720 it's like

00:50:23.020 I have

00:50:23.280 to write

00:50:23.700 something

00:50:24.160 I have

00:50:24.580 to fly

00:50:25.020 here

00:50:25.500 and I

00:50:26.760 can fill

00:50:27.340 what Scott

00:50:28.460 would call

00:50:28.900 the mental

00:50:29.440 shelf space

00:50:30.300 with so much

00:50:31.240 negative

00:50:31.660 information

00:50:32.340 that I

00:50:32.860 wouldn't do

00:50:33.340 something

00:50:33.700 that I

00:50:34.080 would end

00:50:34.480 up really

00:50:35.640 really happy

00:50:36.420 and grateful

00:50:36.980 and honored

00:50:37.440 to do

00:50:37.880 we do that

00:50:38.540 a lot

00:50:38.840 I do

00:50:39.160 that a lot

00:50:39.640 so I

00:50:41.800 look I

00:50:42.180 focus on

00:50:42.640 the reward

00:50:43.140 what would

00:50:43.580 happen if I

00:50:44.180 did this

00:50:44.800 I'm doing

00:50:45.800 this for

00:50:46.260 Scott

00:50:46.740 he would

00:50:47.360 be happy

00:50:48.040 he would

00:50:48.920 be

00:50:49.380 thrilled

00:50:51.060 to know

00:50:51.860 that I

00:50:52.180 came here

00:50:52.820 and I

00:50:53.060 did this

00:50:53.440 and I

00:50:53.800 would feel

00:50:54.200 good

00:50:54.500 and I

00:50:55.020 think about

00:50:55.380 those things

00:50:56.000 and those

00:50:56.320 things

00:50:56.580 shove

00:50:57.220 the anxiety

00:50:58.180 and the

00:50:58.440 negativity

00:50:58.840 out

00:50:59.220 that was

00:50:59.560 the

00:50:59.740 replacing

00:51:00.500 the effort

00:51:01.580 everybody

00:51:01.980 thinks about

00:51:02.580 effort

00:51:03.020 doing the

00:51:03.760 dishes

00:51:04.080 you don't

00:51:04.880 want to

00:51:05.060 get off

00:51:05.340 from out

00:51:05.740 of the

00:51:05.960 sofa

00:51:06.180 to do

00:51:06.460 the

00:51:06.620 dishes

00:51:06.940 well you

00:51:07.220 think about

00:51:07.560 the clean

00:51:07.920 dishes

00:51:08.340 in the

00:51:09.220 cupboard

00:51:09.560 so stupid

00:51:10.900 but so

00:51:11.880 simple

00:51:12.300 and so

00:51:12.680 effective

00:51:13.160 he often

00:51:15.500 would talk

00:51:15.900 about replacing

00:51:16.700 anxiety

00:51:17.520 with adventure

00:51:18.400 you know

00:51:19.480 and

00:51:19.720 somebody

00:51:20.800 who has

00:51:21.420 anxiety

00:51:21.920 will often

00:51:22.460 worry about

00:51:23.220 what's

00:51:23.780 going to

00:51:24.000 happen

00:51:24.320 what's

00:51:24.840 going to

00:51:25.060 happen

00:51:25.360 and he

00:51:26.000 would frame

00:51:26.360 it more

00:51:27.320 like what's

00:51:28.100 going to

00:51:28.460 happen

00:51:28.800 it's going

00:51:30.060 to be

00:51:30.300 great

00:51:30.740 aren't you

00:51:31.380 dying to

00:51:31.880 find out

00:51:32.300 what's going

00:51:32.720 to happen

00:51:33.220 and that

00:51:34.060 would you

00:51:34.400 know I

00:51:34.680 would often

00:51:35.120 use that

00:51:35.660 framework when

00:51:36.460 I would go

00:51:36.920 on trips

00:51:37.360 because I had

00:51:37.680 this tremendous

00:51:38.160 fear of flying

00:51:38.980 which oddly

00:51:40.220 enough went

00:51:40.820 away over the

00:51:41.700 last 10

00:51:42.520 years

00:51:43.000 perhaps because

00:51:44.540 I flipped it

00:51:45.160 from terror

00:51:45.900 to curiosity

00:51:46.960 and what could

00:51:48.900 it be like if I

00:51:49.640 die in a plane

00:51:50.300 crash

00:51:50.840 it actually

00:51:53.400 worked if

00:51:54.260 you think

00:51:54.780 like that

00:51:55.440 you can

00:51:56.760 actually think

00:51:57.380 like hey

00:51:57.680 this this

00:51:58.400 will be

00:51:58.660 interesting

00:51:59.400 one of my

00:52:03.000 favorite

00:52:03.480 frames he

00:52:05.760 does is

00:52:06.460 about the

00:52:07.000 ego and

00:52:07.900 I never

00:52:08.160 really thought

00:52:09.020 about the

00:52:09.440 ego and

00:52:09.960 how much it

00:52:10.520 played a

00:52:10.880 role in my

00:52:11.640 life and

00:52:12.040 our lives

00:52:12.700 and when

00:52:13.040 listening to

00:52:13.760 Scott was

00:52:14.420 you know

00:52:15.200 how much

00:52:15.960 all of your

00:52:18.560 relationships are

00:52:19.340 based on whether

00:52:19.920 your ego is

00:52:20.500 going to be

00:52:20.860 injured or

00:52:21.380 not and

00:52:21.760 basically

00:52:22.240 anxiety is

00:52:23.100 just your

00:52:23.480 ego sweating

00:52:24.500 and to

00:52:27.020 somehow he

00:52:27.880 brought up

00:52:28.620 this concept

00:52:29.120 of basically

00:52:29.800 being able to

00:52:30.460 dial up and

00:52:31.160 dial down

00:52:31.700 your ego as

00:52:32.900 though it's

00:52:33.140 something that

00:52:33.580 is a flexible

00:52:34.880 variable in

00:52:35.860 which you

00:52:36.160 could just

00:52:36.440 dial it down

00:52:36.980 to nothing

00:52:37.500 and my

00:52:38.840 favorite frame

00:52:39.580 and I've

00:52:40.160 quoted it in

00:52:41.240 books and

00:52:41.700 in articles is

00:52:42.520 that imagine

00:52:43.100 somebody asking

00:52:43.760 you to carry a

00:52:44.480 Picasso across

00:52:45.380 the street

00:52:45.980 so you're

00:52:47.200 oh god I

00:52:47.900 gotta wrap

00:52:48.960 it up I

00:52:49.740 gotta wait for

00:52:50.300 the weather to

00:52:50.800 be nice I

00:52:51.340 gotta walk

00:52:51.700 really slow

00:52:52.380 watch for

00:52:52.860 traffic I

00:52:53.760 can't let

00:52:54.280 anything happen

00:52:55.000 to this

00:52:55.360 Picasso but

00:52:56.700 then think

00:52:57.100 about somebody

00:52:57.620 asking you to

00:52:58.580 carry a

00:52:59.060 potato and

00:52:59.720 you're like

00:53:00.060 that's fine

00:53:00.740 put it in

00:53:01.060 your pocket if

00:53:01.640 you lose the

00:53:01.980 potato you get

00:53:02.520 another one and

00:53:03.520 he says right

00:53:04.060 now your ego is

00:53:05.220 the Picasso and

00:53:06.120 you need to turn

00:53:06.740 it into a

00:53:07.220 potato and I

00:53:08.600 often thought

00:53:09.100 about I always

00:53:09.800 just like if I

00:53:10.700 was like nervous

00:53:11.680 about something I

00:53:12.520 go up it's a

00:53:13.160 Picasso gotta turn

00:53:14.200 it into a

00:53:14.620 potato and

00:53:15.380 it and it

00:53:17.180 worked um

00:53:18.960 what are the

00:53:20.920 other there's

00:53:21.280 some other

00:53:21.560 simple things

00:53:22.140 that uh when

00:53:22.980 he just says if

00:53:23.760 you have bad

00:53:24.160 thoughts just

00:53:24.700 shout no

00:53:25.380 he would do

00:53:28.320 that every once

00:53:29.180 in a while and

00:53:29.760 he goes just

00:53:30.240 say no

00:53:30.760 nope nope

00:53:31.980 and it does I

00:53:33.360 mean it does

00:53:33.980 work uh and

00:53:35.520 also if something

00:53:36.240 goes bad I

00:53:37.140 love this

00:53:37.820 framing because

00:53:39.300 you know I

00:53:40.380 have been fired

00:53:40.940 three times

00:53:41.840 I've had bad

00:53:43.440 relationships I

00:53:44.620 wish I'd heard

00:53:45.380 this before I

00:53:46.800 probably would

00:53:47.140 have been in

00:53:47.480 more bad

00:53:47.980 relationships if

00:53:48.780 I'd heard this

00:53:49.240 before but his

00:53:51.100 it was just a

00:53:52.320 bad fit and I

00:53:53.940 thought about that

00:53:54.640 it's like it's

00:53:55.460 such a great

00:53:56.980 piece of advice to

00:53:58.060 give to somebody

00:53:58.820 who just got

00:53:59.400 fired or just

00:54:00.760 went it's just a

00:54:01.380 bad fit it takes

00:54:02.700 again it it takes

00:54:04.140 everything off

00:54:04.780 your ego and

00:54:06.200 it's just such

00:54:07.120 it's I think

00:54:08.420 part of the

00:54:09.020 genius of Scott

00:54:10.180 was the the

00:54:11.720 simplicity of

00:54:13.260 this information

00:54:13.980 so simple that

00:54:14.760 we overlooked it

00:54:15.640 and I'd learned

00:54:16.840 all of this

00:54:17.420 stuff the way

00:54:18.360 many of you did

00:54:19.100 every morning it

00:54:19.860 was 10 a.m.

00:54:20.500 my time on the

00:54:21.660 east coast I

00:54:22.560 love trying to

00:54:23.220 explain it to

00:54:23.840 people who aren't

00:54:24.380 familiar with it

00:54:25.100 I'm sure you've

00:54:25.640 done that oh

00:54:26.640 there's this guy

00:54:27.220 you should watch

00:54:27.860 on uh on

00:54:29.220 YouTube his

00:54:30.480 name's Scott

00:54:31.060 Adams oh that

00:54:31.880 Dilbert guy yeah

00:54:32.660 but you this is

00:54:33.320 amazing because I

00:54:33.920 was not I wasn't

00:54:34.680 a cartoon guy I

00:54:35.940 just got into him

00:54:36.800 because uh somebody

00:54:37.900 recommended that I

00:54:38.980 had you know a

00:54:39.940 pretty severe case of

00:54:41.020 Trump derangement

00:54:41.880 and you and I

00:54:43.180 started reading Scott

00:54:44.060 and he got me out

00:54:44.880 of it literally like

00:54:45.940 boom and uh but

00:54:47.500 trying to explain a

00:54:49.540 coffee with Scott

00:54:50.320 Adams to somebody

00:54:51.060 that's unfamiliar with

00:54:52.160 it is pretty it's

00:54:53.440 pretty rich because

00:54:54.380 that's how the

00:54:54.980 podcast worked it

00:54:55.900 wasn't it wasn't

00:54:57.580 sophisticated it

00:54:59.060 didn't feel like a

00:54:59.920 show he wasn't

00:55:00.980 interested in trying

00:55:01.920 to dispense this

00:55:03.080 intellectual wisdom

00:55:04.120 to feel superior he

00:55:05.060 was just trying to

00:55:05.500 be your friend and

00:55:06.980 he understood that if

00:55:07.640 you were there he

00:55:09.680 was gonna show up

00:55:10.520 anyway because if

00:55:11.340 you were there you

00:55:12.580 needed a friend and

00:55:13.880 he understood that his

00:55:15.720 voice just his

00:55:18.000 manners it was all

00:55:19.500 this incredible

00:55:20.200 gratitude from

00:55:21.120 service those two

00:55:22.860 things I learned

00:55:23.760 from Scott go hand

00:55:24.720 in hand the more

00:55:26.040 service you do the

00:55:27.360 more grateful you

00:55:28.340 are nobody told me

00:55:30.240 that growing up but

00:55:32.260 I learned that from

00:55:33.000 him and I would

00:55:33.740 quote him on the

00:55:34.500 five one of the

00:55:35.280 great things that I

00:55:37.060 I really appreciate

00:55:38.260 is that he loved the

00:55:39.120 five and he would

00:55:39.760 watch it every day

00:55:41.760 and he would know

00:55:42.500 and I would quote

00:55:43.180 him I would if I

00:55:44.400 quoted him on

00:55:45.460 everything I would

00:55:46.460 have to quote him

00:55:47.240 on everything and

00:55:48.860 he would just say

00:55:49.600 hey Greg thanks for

00:55:50.680 mentioning me but

00:55:51.320 you don't have to

00:55:52.160 so he was never

00:55:53.520 chasing any kind of

00:55:54.840 recognition he was

00:55:56.200 just glad that he

00:55:56.940 helped so he didn't

00:55:58.780 care whether I

00:56:00.000 mentioned him or

00:56:00.700 not even though I

00:56:01.540 would feel guilty

00:56:02.340 if let's say I I

00:56:04.180 said something that I

00:56:05.080 heard that morning

00:56:05.820 and didn't attribute

00:56:07.120 it to him I felt

00:56:07.900 dirty he was like it

00:56:09.860 doesn't matter and

00:56:11.100 it was part of his I

00:56:12.200 guess his um his

00:56:14.000 philosophy that you're

00:56:15.440 helping somebody else

00:56:16.500 and that's good

00:56:17.020 enough for him he

00:56:18.200 doesn't need any of

00:56:20.160 the accolades and I

00:56:21.260 think you know a lot

00:56:22.980 of people don't

00:56:23.420 realize the impact

00:56:24.200 he's had on this

00:56:25.680 world because of that

00:56:26.640 his impact on the

00:56:27.460 White House and in

00:56:28.540 certain policies that

00:56:29.380 we deal with now in

00:56:30.260 terms of health you

00:56:31.640 know came a lot from

00:56:32.400 him and a lot of

00:56:33.360 people listen to him

00:56:34.240 that you you would be

00:56:35.500 surprised but I'm

00:56:37.120 really happy I'm

00:56:38.260 really happy for Scott

00:56:39.200 because I think he

00:56:39.980 accomplished his goal

00:56:41.680 because he had a

00:56:42.380 great system remember

00:56:43.900 everybody's gonna reach

00:56:44.960 the goal we're all

00:56:45.620 gonna die but his

00:56:46.600 system got him off

00:56:48.180 what you would call I

00:56:49.100 guess he called it

00:56:49.640 prisoner's island do

00:56:50.640 you guys remember

00:56:51.120 that when you'd be

00:56:51.840 trapped on an island but

00:56:53.280 he would be the last

00:56:53.900 one standing and I

00:56:54.900 feel like he got off

00:56:55.920 prisoner's island and

00:56:57.620 we're all like he's

00:56:59.920 still with us he's

00:57:01.600 managed to do

00:57:02.380 something that very

00:57:03.340 few people do is

00:57:04.660 that we he left

00:57:05.960 everybody who knew

00:57:07.060 him in a better

00:57:07.720 place and he's in a

00:57:09.180 better place and I'm

00:57:10.940 just incredibly

00:57:11.560 grateful to be here

00:57:13.280 and to have known

00:57:14.240 him I can't imagine

00:57:15.100 my life not knowing

00:57:16.120 him which is weird

00:57:18.020 considering I'm not

00:57:18.960 related to him it was

00:57:20.260 just some guy I read

00:57:21.320 but I'll stop there

00:57:23.360 but up next we have

00:57:25.260 a friend of this is

00:57:27.700 a buddy of mine who

00:57:28.720 we both kind of

00:57:29.920 bonded over Scott

00:57:30.980 Adams we were like in

00:57:32.340 the green room and he

00:57:33.120 goes hey do you

00:57:33.900 listen to Scott Adams

00:57:34.760 I go are you kidding

00:57:35.680 me this is Dr.

00:57:38.160 Drew who couldn't get

00:57:39.140 here but he sent a

00:57:40.200 message

00:57:40.880 my feelings are vast

00:57:45.400 but my comment will be

00:57:47.040 brief

00:57:47.580 I feel that we have

00:57:49.280 lost our comrade and

00:57:51.080 our trusted professor

00:57:52.400 and I have lost a

00:57:54.420 buddy I shall forever

00:57:56.420 be grateful for the

00:57:57.600 relationship we had

00:57:58.700 and for the wisdom

00:58:00.140 imparted but like in

00:58:02.540 every great battle our

00:58:03.600 job is to carry on but

00:58:05.720 never forget never

00:58:08.040 forget the inspiration

00:58:09.120 and never forget the

00:58:11.600 wisdom we have a job

00:58:13.800 to do for which Scott

00:58:15.460 has trained us we

00:58:17.460 must carry his

00:58:18.600 message forward but I

00:58:21.980 still shall miss my

00:58:23.660 friend

00:58:24.040 up next one of the

00:58:29.680 early adopters of

00:58:31.080 Scott Adams Mike

00:58:32.160 Cernovich

00:58:32.620 you know I've sort of

00:58:41.440 been going to too many

00:58:42.640 funerals but one of the

00:58:43.840 things that I find

00:58:44.820 interesting about him is

00:58:46.160 and I had this epiphany

00:58:47.560 at my grandfather's is

00:58:49.240 everybody's just kind of

00:58:50.240 like an avatar to a

00:58:51.440 person you know I'm like

00:58:53.580 I you know Greg knows

00:58:54.960 Scott this way Shelly

00:58:56.340 knows it this way and

00:58:57.620 when you go to a

00:58:58.780 funeral it's a

00:58:59.560 kaleidoscope and

00:59:00.420 you're sort of turning

00:59:01.520 it and you think oh

00:59:02.900 yeah I mean Scott had a

00:59:04.120 real life I remember

00:59:05.200 when I saw him at my

00:59:06.200 grandpa's funeral I

00:59:06.980 go wait this guy was he

00:59:08.520 was just my grandpa as a

00:59:09.680 kid and you're like no

00:59:10.440 this was a human being he

00:59:12.440 had dreams he lived you

00:59:15.080 know and he died so

00:59:16.140 coming here and hearing

00:59:17.840 Shelly and everybody's

00:59:18.960 stuff has helped me like

00:59:20.500 keep my shit together

00:59:21.260 because I'm not I'm I've

00:59:24.900 become sentimental my old

00:59:25.980 old age but so so I knew

00:59:28.260 Scott and and I thought

00:59:30.500 was funny is I was at I

00:59:32.920 read his book and I go

00:59:34.560 man this is a great book

00:59:35.700 and put together a lot of

00:59:37.060 thoughts that I'd had but

00:59:38.080 it was more systematic

00:59:39.360 where there's a lot of

00:59:41.840 swirl or blur in your

00:59:43.040 life and you go that's

00:59:43.860 yeah a few every skill

00:59:46.620 you learn and you add it

00:59:47.620 compounds it and then as

00:59:49.200 you got to know Scott

00:59:49.980 better he would just say

00:59:50.820 oh I made up that rule

00:59:51.700 but it sounds better to

00:59:52.620 just say double right it's

00:59:53.900 more like a 10 or 20

00:59:54.860 percent thing and I go I

00:59:57.000 want to meet the guy I

00:59:57.760 want to meet the guy so

00:59:59.000 I just did what occurred

01:00:00.240 naturally to me which

01:00:01.100 was you write a book

01:00:02.280 review I always tell

01:00:04.080 people they're always in

01:00:05.480 people's notifications how

01:00:06.880 do I meet this person

01:00:07.940 I go hey have you ever

01:00:09.140 written about the person

01:00:10.140 or written a book no no

01:00:11.560 it doesn't even doesn't

01:00:12.320 even occur to anybody I

01:00:13.800 wrote a book review on it

01:00:14.820 because I thought it was

01:00:15.320 a great book and then I

01:00:16.160 remember he followed me on

01:00:19.260 Twitter what it was it

01:00:20.060 called then I was at the

01:00:20.900 gym I was at Equinox with

01:00:22.020 my wife and I was like

01:00:24.440 yeah I got the Scott Adams

01:00:25.500 Scott Adams follow but the

01:00:27.860 reason that comes to mind

01:00:28.900 is his header image was a

01:00:30.760 it was a cutting board of

01:00:31.960 vegetables something

01:00:33.360 ridiculous and the reason

01:00:36.320 I bring that up is there's

01:00:37.220 a bigger point is back

01:00:38.760 then nobody knew what

01:00:39.760 social media was or what

01:00:40.920 you were doing on it now

01:00:42.600 right it's a whole industry

01:00:44.020 it's a cottage industry now

01:00:45.460 you have your glam glass

01:00:47.340 pick and your header

01:00:49.080 image has to look a

01:00:50.100 certain way and you have

01:00:51.100 all these things and links

01:00:52.040 you can do and he's just

01:00:53.600 like I don't know it's just

01:00:54.460 cutting board image and I

01:00:55.660 was sort of the same like I

01:00:56.740 don't know what to post

01:00:57.600 iPhones didn't even have

01:00:58.880 selfie mode at the time

01:01:00.120 so no nobody really knew

01:01:01.780 what they were doing

01:01:02.640 including him including

01:01:04.040 me and how do you tie it

01:01:07.340 to Scott you go well

01:01:08.240 nobody knows what they're

01:01:09.440 doing but that's way too

01:01:11.060 reddit coded that's one of

01:01:13.120 those dumb things losers

01:01:14.300 say but you figure it out

01:01:16.920 right you figure it out and

01:01:18.560 but you're gonna you're

01:01:19.640 gonna take some hits and

01:01:21.380 that that was Scott nobody

01:01:23.220 knew how to use Twitter you

01:01:24.960 get on Twitter back then

01:01:26.220 there's no industry so all it

01:01:27.440 does is ruins your life by the

01:01:29.300 way anybody it's great now

01:01:31.380 to be like wow like sort of

01:01:33.240 like no it was a bad 10

01:01:34.960 years and Scott and I live

01:01:37.040 those 10 years together in a

01:01:39.560 lot of ways because he's

01:01:40.940 somebody who was riding

01:01:41.960 high and Dilbert I didn't

01:01:43.440 really know much about

01:01:44.140 Dilbert either other than

01:01:45.160 existed I just liked his

01:01:46.420 book and I thought he's a

01:01:47.420 smart guy next thing you

01:01:49.740 know he's persona non

01:01:50.840 grata 2015 2016 and he

01:01:53.560 hadn't even really said

01:01:55.380 anything shocking by then

01:01:56.440 that was I was more of the

01:01:57.360 bomb thrower and then

01:01:59.260 you you see him take

01:02:00.340 chunks and then you see

01:02:01.360 him live his life and

01:02:02.240 that's I think that's why

01:02:03.300 people that's why a lot of

01:02:06.020 people myself included are

01:02:07.060 so sentimental about it

01:02:08.100 because we like we live

01:02:09.740 life together the the

01:02:11.440 overdose the the challenges

01:02:14.320 that he had though the

01:02:15.360 watching a good man be

01:02:16.400 smeared but I had this

01:02:18.320 weird closure though

01:02:20.740 actually when I'm

01:02:22.080 surprisingly from it was

01:02:23.620 either New York Times or

01:02:24.520 one of these outlets and we

01:02:27.540 knew it was coming we knew

01:02:28.740 it was coming obituaries we

01:02:30.700 knew they were coming right

01:02:31.980 and it says something like

01:02:33.760 former great cartoonist

01:02:36.080 turned scumbag dies and I

01:02:39.660 laughed I swear to God I

01:02:41.580 laughed because if if you

01:02:43.960 read the obituaries about

01:02:45.280 terrorists there was one guy

01:02:46.740 who was called a beloved

01:02:47.740 Islamic scholar he was

01:02:50.600 ISIS and I thought to

01:02:53.060 myself this is this is funny

01:02:54.900 whereas I think a year ago or

01:02:56.360 six months ago I'd have been

01:02:57.500 so angry about it and I

01:02:59.320 thought this is just

01:03:00.200 perfect this is this is

01:03:02.280 comical it is it is

01:03:03.920 comical at this comical at

01:03:05.380 this point that you're doing

01:03:07.200 to it and that that was

01:03:09.280 again I think a wink from

01:03:10.640 him in the universe and it's

01:03:12.600 funny that that Greg said he

01:03:14.000 quit drinking because I the

01:03:17.000 opposite I'm not drinking but

01:03:18.360 I remember after ayahuasca I

01:03:19.700 DM Scott and I go I finally

01:03:20.920 understand God's debris so I

01:03:23.320 I guess I'm the druggy now

01:03:25.240 one guy quits it and another

01:03:26.720 guy find something else find

01:03:29.140 something else in Peru but I

01:03:30.820 get it and I get what you're

01:03:32.200 trying to say about the the

01:03:33.880 connection or the ego and the

01:03:36.440 ego is separating from everyone

01:03:38.640 else and the connection was

01:03:40.000 everybody feels closer

01:03:41.220 together and in many ways the

01:03:43.140 meaning of life is trying to get

01:03:45.360 away from the egotistical

01:03:46.660 separation and the boundaries and

01:03:49.160 I'm so great or like I'm not

01:03:50.980 afraid to cry anymore I'm like I

01:03:52.720 don't want it to ruin ruin my

01:03:55.000 talk because I want to look

01:03:55.880 cool or whatever but I was like

01:03:58.320 I'm trying to start crying and

01:03:59.540 like I don't care what am I

01:04:00.860 going to do start crying what

01:04:01.920 are people going to laugh at me

01:04:02.960 what do I care if people laugh

01:04:04.400 at me because I'm weeping you

01:04:06.240 know weeping over a beloved

01:04:07.600 figure and and that that was

01:04:10.180 Scott that was Scott to the very

01:04:11.800 end a very complicated person a

01:04:15.700 beloved person and someone that

01:04:17.480 we all saw a certain part of and

01:04:19.840 I I'm just so grateful I got to

01:04:22.320 be here with everybody and to

01:04:23.520 hear everybody's stories so thank

01:04:24.840 you so much and God bless

01:04:25.940 thanks Mike that was great up next

01:04:36.000 beaming in Zuby hey this is Zuby

01:04:40.720 here and this is a tough message to

01:04:42.580 record so how shall I begin let me

01:04:45.600 begin by saying rest in peace to a

01:04:47.680 legend to you Scott Adams God bless

01:04:50.760 you we love you we appreciate you and

01:04:53.960 I'm grateful to be able to call you a

01:04:56.040 friend thank you for your kindness

01:04:58.920 thank you for your wisdom your

01:05:01.660 hospitality and all of this love that

01:05:04.760 you have shown over the years thank

01:05:06.560 you for the laughs and the knowledge

01:05:08.560 that you've provided for decades to

01:05:11.080 me and to millions and millions of

01:05:13.600 people all around the globe you're

01:05:16.240 truly truly appreciated I know as part

01:05:19.880 of Scott's legacy he wanted to have as

01:05:22.000 many people as possible at his funeral

01:05:24.320 and I think that we are witnessing that

01:05:26.920 right now I wish I could be there in

01:05:28.640 person but this message is going to

01:05:30.960 have to do for now I know that you're

01:05:33.360 up there simultaneously sipping with the

01:05:35.960 angels right now and cracking jokes

01:05:37.840 and I know that one day I'm going to

01:05:39.880 see you on the other side brother so to

01:05:42.080 all of Scott's friends family fans

01:05:45.120 people who are grieving please keep your

01:05:47.800 heads up I know that's what he would

01:05:49.280 want and Scott thank you so much for

01:05:53.640 everything man God bless you we

01:05:55.240 appreciate you great sure that was Scott

01:05:59.260 texting him

01:06:00.040 could have done it over without the

01:06:05.540 texting but that's what I like him

01:06:07.040 all right up next Jack

01:06:08.880 the sabiak hope I did that right I

01:06:12.640 always screw it up

01:06:13.440 totally wrong but that's okay you know

01:06:18.740 actually funny enough Scott in his

01:06:21.060 lifetime would always it would always

01:06:23.000 say Jack Posobiec Jack Posobiec and I

01:06:25.400 remember there a few times we talk on

01:06:26.500 the phone and I would say you know

01:06:27.560 actually Scott it's it's Posobiec just

01:06:29.380 wanted to make sure you know it's

01:06:30.240 Posobiec he's like oh great then the

01:06:31.900 very next day you'd be out there Jack

01:06:33.520 Posobiec out there and so it's just

01:06:35.680 it's just funny Scott was kind of like

01:06:37.160 that but you know we're out here and

01:06:39.400 we're thinking about this we're

01:06:40.800 thinking about Scott and how much he

01:06:42.200 meant to us and we've had such great

01:06:44.260 speakers we have so many great

01:06:45.900 speakers to come but I was kind of

01:06:47.700 wondering now I think I know what

01:06:50.280 everyone's thinking out there I think I

01:06:52.340 know what everybody's waiting for and

01:06:54.620 I was thinking that maybe you guys

01:06:56.600 wanted to take it up a notch did

01:06:58.620 anybody want to maybe take it up a

01:07:00.720 notch because I know a few people may

01:07:02.440 have them here we've got a couple of

01:07:04.120 mugs and I know there's a lot of

01:07:05.740 people who have the mugs at home and

01:07:08.360 so I wanted to make sure that at least

01:07:10.940 somebody did the simultaneous sip while

01:07:14.540 we were all here together so I figured I

01:07:16.300 might as well go for it and it's really

01:07:18.940 simple because all you need is a cup

01:07:22.440 a mug or glass a tankard chalice or

01:07:25.560 stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of

01:07:29.800 any kind fill it with your favorite

01:07:32.140 liquid Scott like coffee and join us now

01:07:36.240 for the unparalleled pleasure the

01:07:38.160 dopamine hit of the day the thing that

01:07:40.640 makes everything better even when your

01:07:43.800 good friend and a good man advances to

01:07:46.720 the next level of the simulation it's

01:07:49.360 called the simultaneous sip and it happens

01:07:51.300 now go

01:07:52.140 for Scott

01:07:56.700 and you know I would say the first time

01:08:02.860 I ever met Scott in a sense was

01:08:05.900 probably like a lot of people in the

01:08:08.380 newspaper right when you're reading the

01:08:10.680 cartoons and and I was a kid and I would

01:08:13.160 you know I loved you know Snoopy and I

01:08:16.000 love you know Charles Schultz and

01:08:18.820 Charlie Brown and Peanuts and then

01:08:21.600 Garfield and of course the rest of them

01:08:23.700 then there was this other cartoon this

01:08:26.380 comic strip that I would see and I love

01:08:28.440 the newspapers I would get them every

01:08:29.740 day and it was this this guy who worked

01:08:32.760 in an office and it was called Dilbert and

01:08:36.360 I didn't understand it at all I didn't

01:08:38.140 make any sense to me as a kid reading

01:08:41.000 this and then going through grade school it

01:08:42.620 didn't make any sense that I'd get to high

01:08:44.420 school and I'd still I'd still read the the

01:08:46.100 comic strips that didn't make any sense

01:08:47.580 then

01:08:48.500 then I got my first internship

01:08:51.300 and you know working in uh in media in

01:08:56.380 Philadelphia area and you know you're making

01:08:58.580 copies you're working in office and suddenly

01:09:00.740 oh gosh you start to get it it starts to make

01:09:04.120 sense and then when I was in the military and and

01:09:07.360 like gosh you know people think oh wow the

01:09:09.080 intelligence community and and oh wow that's

01:09:11.600 like super spy James Bond stuff no no it's all

01:09:14.680 Dilbert but it really is it really is and and anyone

01:09:18.640 who tells you otherwise is a fed um and and when you when

01:09:24.000 I would go through Scott and and we would

01:09:25.780 eventually get the you know the calendars and we'd get

01:09:28.480 them come in and you'd see the Dilbert you know cartoons

01:09:31.260 up um on different uh cubicles in different places you

01:09:35.140 think this guy just gets it and this guy just totally gets

01:09:37.740 it but he also understood he also understood that there's

01:09:42.380 so much more to life than the cubicle farm that that is not

01:09:48.060 where you find your meaning in life and in many cases and as

01:09:52.260 a Catholic I say that's your purgatory right when you're living

01:09:55.840 in those cubicles life is what happens outside of there life

01:09:59.880 is what happens when you're meeting other people when you're

01:10:03.400 having those impacts on other people when you're raising

01:10:06.940 children when you're having those meaningful relationships and

01:10:10.080 when you're being useful to others and I think Scott really

01:10:13.320 taught us all that so much and of course he lived that life it

01:10:16.820 was this observation this shrewd observation he was one of the

01:10:20.440 wisest people and of course courageously early on to see what

01:10:25.720 the Trump movement was doing what what Trump was doing as a

01:10:28.720 president to come forward and he sacrificed so much coming out and

01:10:34.840 saying what he did when he did it deals contracts publishers

01:10:39.220 income even his social circle and he did it anyway and I think I

01:10:43.300 think people misunderstand that they think oh well Scott was just

01:10:47.560 a big Trump supporter I don't think it was like that I think Scott

01:10:51.040 was a human supporter and Scott was a social supporter and he

01:10:55.720 wanted the best things for everyone and he deeply deeply loved other

01:11:00.440 people and he deeply deeply loved his country he was a true American

01:11:05.560 patriot and and in that spirit we knew that in those last those last

01:11:11.320 days those last weeks when he made that announcement about accepting

01:11:14.760 Christ and I know there were some people they had they had questions they

01:11:18.240 said oh was you know is this a cost-benefit analysis is it Pascal's

01:11:21.880 wager and and I think you guys who knew Scott even more personally than I

01:11:27.480 did you would say he didn't do things without sincerity he always did things

01:11:33.000 with true sincerity and so I believe it's true it's either an unbelievable

01:11:38.280 generosity in his last moments or it was his acceptance and humility and just

01:11:43.160 from my own personal perspective people remember of course think it was back

01:11:47.080 last May when he made his his diagnosed public and of course in typical Scott

01:11:52.040 Adams fashion he actually obeyed his for his own 48-hour rule because he got

01:11:56.280 the news but then didn't make it public for 48 hours so even imposes his rules on

01:12:00.520 himself and there was he had he had thought originally that he may only make it one

01:12:07.480 more month and he wanted to make it past the wedding and he said that he did that

01:12:12.200 but then some doors opened and some phone calls were made and we know that we were

01:12:16.280 given another six six seven months with him

01:12:22.360 and he saw the outpouring of love that came along with that

01:12:26.200 and I think it was those last few months that he was given by God in order to bring him to Jesus

01:12:33.320 and make that final conversion and that's what I'll always believe and I know and I know that

01:12:40.200 our Lord brought him up of course a little bit early because I'm sure that that God and Jesus and

01:12:47.960 everyone else were as cheesed as we were the Dilbert was cancelled in 2023 and he said well

01:12:52.760 we're gonna have to call him up here disappearing from the local paper and like many of us Jesus

01:12:57.400 doesn't always have time to watch the full live stream you have to you know maybe go back or or

01:13:02.200 like me go back I would always I'm a 2x guy but now it's Scott's turn to forever rest and to watch

01:13:10.680 and enjoy as he settles into eternity with our father after a lifetime of being useful to others

01:13:16.680 spent making all of our lives richer and funnier and sharper focus and more true and I know he certainly

01:13:23.480 did that for me my entire family

01:13:31.640 eternal rest grant unto him oh lord and let perpetual light shine upon him may his soul and all the souls

01:13:38.680 of all the faithful departed through the mercy of god rest in peace amen

01:13:45.720 god hope you and charlie are having a good time up there

01:13:53.480 up next joshua lisek

01:14:07.800 yes hello my name is joshua lisek i am scott adams editor and publisher for his library of literary works

01:14:17.320 in the wake of his cancellation that particular morning i received a number of notifications

01:14:23.560 that people were shouting out my name in scott's mentions and his replies and notifications and on

01:14:29.640 the live stream that he should talk to me and it was shortly thereafter i got a text message from him

01:14:37.640 to the effect of what do you know about setting up an independent publishing company joshua

01:14:42.360 effectively was the conversation and the rest is history and part of the history of course is

01:14:48.040 the book we see here reframe your brain in reframe your brain scott taught us the usual frame versus

01:14:57.000 reframe formula it's a way to go from impoverished thinking around an area of your life to something

01:15:02.840 closer to happiness and success we will repurpose the great influencers formula now usual frame scott adams

01:15:14.520 has passed away reframe scott adams now lives forever what is a man but what he does for others

01:15:27.160 consider the greatest men with the noblest feats in western history of art and science politics and

01:15:32.440 public service names we all know like michelangelo davinci the wright brothers favorite u.s president's

01:15:39.800 past washington lincoln teddy roosevelt into the pantheon of greatness enters now the most influential

01:15:48.760 personal development writer of all time and space scott raymond adams scott adams belongs to the ages now

01:15:58.680 his steadfast ever present spirit the kindness and wit clarity and skepticism he taught us when he came

01:16:06.680 into our homes and hearts every single day for more than 10 years starting with the simultaneous sip scott

01:16:13.720 left a lasting impression on civilization because he left his mark on each of us some of us knew him as a

01:16:20.920 friend and client for many of us he was our internet dad me he taught me how to grieve the loss of my twins

01:16:33.640 with dignity he gave me personally reframes to integrate their little lives into my own and press on honoring

01:16:41.800 theirs and when the happier times came and they do come scott was able to meet all three of my living

01:16:50.600 children each of them knew scott's voice from their mother's womb before they were born fatherhood

01:16:59.080 changed my world view but so did scott adams and around the same time there was a period of my life

01:17:05.720 where i like to joke i was cia which in fact stands for cringe internet atheist and one of my boys at that

01:17:13.640 time was a man named sam harris and i regularly listened to his waking up podcast and during the the

01:17:20.360 days of my more i call it libby phase of life scott adams came on and did the debate with sam and as

01:17:29.160 scott would say he triggered sam harris into cognitive dissonance and sam attempted to obliterate scott in

01:17:38.520 the debate and it totally backfired and then i asked myself as the meme says are we the baddies

01:17:44.840 early there afterwards i became patient zero for scott personally and i became a success story of

01:17:53.960 someone who he publicly cured of tds or trump derangement syndrome he then had me on his podcast

01:18:01.320 a number of times shouted me out in my work and he as the book the famous book from dale carnegie being

01:18:09.880 hearty in your approbation and lavish in your phrase appraise right how to win friends and influence

01:18:14.680 people that's what scott was for me and in terms of inquiries i went from like uh an earlier guest

01:18:22.680 said from about 2 000 to about 155 000 and in many ways scott created and kind of launched my career

01:18:30.920 it was through scott that he later connected with the man who would become my brother and metaphorical

01:18:36.600 arms jack posabic and doing a number of books together but the words that perhaps meant the most to me

01:18:48.840 now beyond the recommendations and praise that he shared publicly about me as his editor i mean how

01:18:57.160 how do you fix scott adams how do you do that that was my task and he was a living demonstration of the

01:19:07.160 dialing down your ego and so i would say scott i think you should restructure it this way revise it

01:19:12.600 this way rephrase it this way and then many times he'd say okay sure and then it was my turn you know

01:19:18.040 i was trying to impress important people as i like to say but then it was my turn i would suggest

01:19:23.960 something and scott would reply as greg would say with the reframe scott would tell me no

01:19:31.000 and so i had to dial my ego down many words we exchanged over the years but his last words

01:19:38.360 to me personally were i love you

01:19:44.760 scott was my internet dad and he was my children's internet grandpa

01:19:52.520 scott adams was the stepfather and godfather of maga before our favorite president donald j trump

01:20:03.400 began to make america great again it was scott who made candidate trump great first

01:20:12.360 politically speaking scott gave millions of us permission to vote our conscience to save america

01:20:18.040 and to so bring about an imminent golden age that scott like moses in the bible knew he would lead the

01:20:24.360 people to but not himself get to see as a person it felt like scott spoke one-to-one to each of us

01:20:31.640 an omnipresent on-demand mentor he was every single day the sense maker we could trust in a world gone mad

01:20:39.080 every day on coffee with scott adams and on every page of his books scott taught us not what to think

01:20:44.280 but how to think and with dilbert how to laugh about every single bit of it scott adams was a rich

01:20:50.840 man and he reinvested his wealth of fatherly wisdom in all of us who knew him liked him and trusted him

01:20:57.160 to repurpose the title of scott's fiction trilogy god's debris we are all scott's debris now from his

01:21:05.800 dilbert cartoons to his political critiques from best-selling books to brave predictions that proved

01:21:10.680 right but costly so and it was worth it learn the price of success then pay it scott would say scott

01:21:18.040 taught us the most valuable micro lesson of all be useful he was he is and i believe he will forever be

01:21:26.920 2 000 years from now on january 25th ad 4026 it's going to be a thursday i hope there's coffee

01:21:34.520 two millennia from now on earth the moon mars or somewhere out past all three thanks in advance

01:21:42.600 elon somewhere at this very moment two thousand years from now someone will discover scott adams

01:21:48.520 for the very first time and their life will change for the better forever they will laugh bigly they

01:21:54.840 will love harder and live better with a reframe here a comic there and a quote they won't ever forget

01:22:00.760 from anywhere scott adams is the mark twain of king solomon's the american author from wyndham new york

01:22:08.600 whose words will live on for so long as there are human beings or whatever comes after us but now it's

01:22:15.240 our turn to quote our mutual stephen k bannon next man up what book will you write what comic will you draw

01:22:26.040 what micro lesson will you teach on video with a double-sided whiteboard what prediction will you

01:22:33.480 make outlandish as it may seem at the time but the very act of you speaking what you believe to

01:22:38.440 be the truth with courage the very act of you making that bold prediction is what makes it come to pass

01:22:45.400 next man up the great influencer who influenced the influencers of the influencers

01:22:51.000 his mug is empty our hearts are full pay him forwards i received this email a few minutes ago

01:23:01.000 and i wanted to share it with you in closing

01:23:06.120 scott on coffee with scott adams number 1619 from january 10 2022 in response to the outpouring of

01:23:15.080 reverence and adoration from people who knew the late funny man bob saget scott said quote

01:23:20.840 i've said that my strategy for my life is to live for the best funeral meaning the most people who

01:23:28.120 care if you die one way to measure whether you lived a good life is how many people care when you die

01:23:34.200 so i've always thought that that would be my standard to have the maximum number of people

01:23:39.640 willingly go to my funeral as opposed to just have to because they're related or something

01:23:44.840 the eternal scott adams the immortal scott adams scott adams forever thank you

01:24:03.000 Joshua up next michael malice

01:24:15.000 impossible to breathe in this thing uh i had a whole bit with this where i was gonna show up

01:24:21.480 and say if you just dress like dillbert you get past security and then tell people horrible things

01:24:26.600 like do you want to see my knife but we're gonna put this aside uh thank you so much for letting me um

01:24:34.360 have a chance to honor scott uh he is just an amazing person it's hard to find the words especially for

01:24:41.160 someone whose job it was to find words that so many others of us had um difficulty finding for

01:24:48.520 ourselves i remember when scott was on my show and i was the hundredth person to ask him what garfield

01:24:55.160 garfield was like in real life and rather than getting annoyed he just kind of rolled his eyes

01:24:59.880 and and went with it um and a clip just recently surfaced this week because i'd forgotten and this part

01:25:07.320 is true when i had him another time my show i said the worst thing in my opinion by getting older

01:25:14.120 is people start dying and i asked him about that and he talked about how he was expecting you know

01:25:20.360 he's gonna outlive a lot of other few times when scott was wrong and the sad thing about getting older

01:25:27.080 and people dying it's never the ones you want i mean i'm not saying i have a list

01:25:32.520 but i am saying i could make a list and i think everyone else in this audience could as well

01:25:43.560 uh one of the most frustrating things about working on the internet and so and in media is how

01:25:50.280 negative and nasty it has been and how much worse it's getting and that's never gotten to scott you

01:25:56.200 always had this air of happiness and being upbeat um and as a result of this you kind of have to get

01:26:03.320 hardened because if you let in the compliments you have to let in the nasty stuff and there's always

01:26:07.640 going to be much more nasty stuff than nice stuff but let me tell you all when scott adams publicly

01:26:12.680 said oh that i'm funny or people should look at my twitter like that level of validation is something

01:26:17.720 that doesn't happen uh very often and scott's legacy is still with us something i like to do

01:26:24.840 is often post the dumbest thing i could think of so just this week i had chad gpt make a drawing of

01:26:31.880 renee good who was the woman killed by ice in minneapolis and scott in a van together driving to heaven

01:26:39.000 and no one said too soon no one said this is disrespectful they just said scott would have

01:26:44.360 liked this because scott liked making people laugh but besides his humor there was also that mind

01:26:52.680 and it's really kind of funny when you talk to people who didn't know who scott was and they

01:26:57.640 think it's the dilbert guy it's like no no no no no no no yeah dilbert's fine but those books and where

01:27:04.360 he changed his career in later days to reorient how people think i'll give you one uh example i get

01:27:10.840 slightly political i talked to a lot of people about uh the epstein stuff and i couldn't reconcile two

01:27:17.080 things i thought okay if trump's in the epstein files biden would have leaked it but if he's not

01:27:22.120 in the epstein stuff why is he fighting so hard to keep it from being released no one i talked to had

01:27:26.920 even a slight theory as to how it could be done except for scott scott's idea is what if trump is

01:27:33.160 using the stuff that's in there to blackmail people and he doesn't want that to be made public because

01:27:37.160 they lose his power is that theory true i don't know but he's the only person i knew who could make

01:27:42.760 sense of different pieces and make them more coherent now as some of you might know i used to

01:27:48.360 co-author books for celebrities so i wrote a little piece and tried my best to get it in scott's voice

01:27:54.680 and that was extremely easy and extremely impossible which is a you know contradiction terms it's easy

01:28:00.920 because scott had a very specific cadence in how he spoke we all know it when we hear it but it's

01:28:06.600 impossible because you cannot get into the head of scott adams his brain worked in ways that no other

01:28:12.600 brain worked so i tried my best let's see if i did a good job with it so here we go so the framework

01:28:19.640 is we're having a memorial service for scott the reframe is we're having a party and scott is running

01:28:26.600 really late what if instead of thinking about this as a sad event we think about it as a get together

01:28:36.760 is it really true that scott is running really late no of course not does that matter for the

01:28:41.560 reframe not really we are friends we haven't talked to in a long time if you stop you could

01:28:47.800 probably think of a bunch of people that if you ran to them right now it would really make your day

01:28:52.120 you have their phone number their email address you can reach out to them this very instant if you

01:28:56.840 wanted to but you won't for whatever reason it doesn't mean you don't like them it just means

01:29:02.840 they're not in your life at this moment and that's fine it's possible you'll never communicate with

01:29:08.600 them again that doesn't change your opinion of them one bit scott tried to do two things in his

01:29:14.760 content he tried to make people laugh and he tried to make people think was every dilbert hilarious no

01:29:22.600 so what some were really good and memorable and some you forgot about them the second you finished

01:29:28.920 reading them i'm sure scott forgot a lot about them too that if he went back to read some of them he'd

01:29:33.880 think well that wasn't very clever but the good ones he'd remember well and have a story to tell

01:29:39.960 about how he wrote them some of the good ones probably came to him in a flash while the others

01:29:44.760 he had to work on the exact wording for weeks or months the other thing scott tried to do was to make

01:29:50.680 people think and to make people think about how they thought again not everything he said was on the

01:29:57.320 money but how would that even be possible no one can say smart things all the time but when you're

01:30:02.920 dealing with a smart person like scott you remember those smart things they said for the rest of your

01:30:07.400 life you might also remember those dumb things because surprising when a smart person says something

01:30:13.160 dumb it's not a surprise when a dumb person says something dumb you just go on thinking yep there they

01:30:18.440 go being dumb but when a smart person says something dumb you think huh that's odd that this smart

01:30:24.680 person said a dumb thing and if you really want to get into it you wonder hey maybe i'm the one being

01:30:29.320 dumb here maybe he sees something i don't or maybe i'm just misunderstanding what he means i've seen

01:30:35.800 both situations happen more times than i can count but scott never tried to make people sad or depressed

01:30:42.680 not once it wasn't part of his vocabulary and since he never tried at it we also know he never failed

01:30:48.040 at it so why would he want us to feel that way he was a great communicator both in his words and

01:30:54.440 his actions and both his words and his actions showed that he want us to laugh and he want us

01:30:59.960 to think but not be sad how would that help him it wouldn't of course in fact if he were sad he

01:31:06.200 probably wanted to go for the reframe to get us out of that sadness as quickly as possible so let's

01:31:11.560 think of this as a party like we've politely waited long enough for scott to arrive it's time to begin

01:31:17.320 you're yawning because where is he already come on it's taking so long maybe we can even get a little

01:31:22.040 annoyed that he's not here because he's missing out he'd find that funny we could still have a good

01:31:27.720 time without him and i think that's what he would have wanted thank you so much

01:31:39.160 could have done that in the mask though

01:31:42.760 up next uh naval ravikant from uh i don't know where he is i think asia

01:31:47.320 shelly uh thank you for the love and the care that you showed and continue to show for scott and

01:31:55.160 for gathering us here uh i'm sorry i couldn't be here in person but uh scott had a huge influence

01:32:01.000 on my life and my writing and so i wrote a few words about the scott that i remember and i'd like to

01:32:07.640 to share them a man finds to his astonishment that he exists after the elation of childhood wears off

01:32:15.880 he asks who am i why am i here how does this all work these are hard questions so after a brief

01:32:23.480 struggle he selects a ready-made answer and goes about the motions of life scott adams was not such a

01:32:30.840 man he was a live player ever curious intent on figuring out the simulation that he found himself

01:32:37.160 in from first principles scott unraveled understood and ultimately controlled his own reality he hacked

01:32:44.040 himself with affirmations others with persuasions the world was simultaneous sips he explained people

01:32:51.160 as moist robots two movies happening on one screen his world is god's debris he carved a personal mission

01:32:58.200 to be useful and made us all better writers public speakers and persuaders he preached the footwear

01:33:04.200 theory of motivation the adams law of slow moving disasters the skill stack systems over goals and of

01:33:10.280 course the dilbert principle besides cartooning philosophizing and teaching scott rose to the

01:33:16.440 occasion and displayed the one virtue that cannot be faked courage scott had the courage to speak

01:33:23.480 honestly as he saw it about trump about his nation and about his time even though it cost him friends

01:33:29.320 audience money and his ticket into polite society scott had true courage the kind that makes you unpopular

01:33:35.880 the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply at the end as any hacker of reality scott covered

01:33:42.040 all of his bases he left as a buddhist a christian and a player in the simulation scott i and we did not

01:33:50.360 get enough time with you but you were a mentor and a marvel you were useful and you were courageous you

01:33:56.120 were incompressible and indivisible one of a kind and generous with your drawing your writing and your

01:34:02.280 speaking unlike your squealing critics in the chattering of classes you will be read generations from now

01:34:10.360 on this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heavens each heaven must be created and

01:34:15.880 nurtured ex nihilo from mind and from mud scott you created a small heaven for us all and to a larger

01:34:23.960 heaven you go a man finds to his astonishment that he no longer exists he asks why what was it for how

01:34:32.680 will this new reality work when the rest of us get there we'll find scott ever useful ready to explain

01:34:40.840 having figured it all out thank you scott god bless you

01:34:51.080 up next walter kern

01:34:55.000 now streaming on paramount plus it began on the shores of new jersey the calls of jim tan laundry

01:35:01.800 reverberated north to canada where a new type of party animal resides they move as a herd migrating

01:35:08.520 to their favorite watering holes asserting dominance by flexing grinding and twerking

01:35:14.200 coupling is quick steamy and sometimes in hot tubs when morning arrives they do it all over again

01:35:20.200 canada shore new original series now streaming on paramount plus

01:35:28.840 i've been looking at that photo as everybody's spoken and i thought now we're surprised he became a

01:35:35.960 christian a man who most uh uniform and cherished ritual was having everybody take a drink from

01:35:43.560 a holy cup together every day um he was a stealth christian that somebody just had to come to him

01:35:53.640 and finally say scott you already are you just have to admit it you you take the sacrament you give the

01:35:59.400 sacrament you've taught america not to fear you've taught america to uh not to pity itself uh to look

01:36:08.120 at every day as a miracle to look at death as you know and the approach of death as the most glorious

01:36:15.240 part of life he uh i'm glad that someone reminded him to come out formally as a christian because

01:36:22.040 he was probably the best one even before he named himself that i've known um i try to think about

01:36:29.800 how i got to know scott adams because i did not know him personally like the people who knew him

01:36:35.240 best i never met him but in around 2016 i became aware that there was a person who wore glasses was

01:36:42.680 very intelligent was a hypnotist and that impressed me as another small town kid hypnotism is one of the

01:36:50.200 skills that we most value um you know public school kids from small towns realized that hypnotism is

01:36:57.160 the road to getting good jobs and beautiful women and so on and that he was a hypnotist made me think

01:37:04.680 that we were kindred souls i found out that there was a guy who wore glasses who was a hypnotist who was

01:37:11.000 intelligent and he kind of liked donald trump and there were two of us it meant um and uh i felt less

01:37:19.240 lonely immediately it was a strange i knew nothing of his work i knew nothing of his comics i only knew

01:37:26.440 that it was possible to be a thinking independent person and have a positive impression of donald trump

01:37:34.440 i wasn't alone i was a journalist writing for harper's magazine and all these kind of very liberal

01:37:39.640 thoughtful magazines and i had not yet met anyone else to whom i could confess my secret um

01:37:49.960 so there he was uh you know the way i really got into scott's world was by starting to listen to his show

01:37:59.000 after my father died of uh als uh my father had a long um well not that long decline but a shocking decline

01:38:10.280 uh from an als addiction in early 2020 to a death from the disease just a few months later and i spent my

01:38:20.280 time at his bedside and i came away uh depleted depressed um upset and i started listening to scott's show as a

01:38:31.000 a self-help uh strategy i mean to me he was the only self-help author who ever helped me and and and

01:38:40.840 that was because he i didn't get the feeling he wanted to touch me um i didn't get the feeling that he

01:38:47.720 he he was creepy in any way he was happy and he was so damn happy he wanted other people to have some

01:38:54.920 you know um and as i started to listen to him i got an idea that his his politics really flowed from a desire for

01:39:06.440 a desire for others to be happy in their own way he was one of those people who um

01:39:15.160 is an avatar of freedom because freedom is the only way that we get to think for ourselves

01:39:21.800 feel for ourselves see for ourselves we can only we can only be happy in our own way and we can only

01:39:27.800 do that if we're free it was a very natural set of political beliefs that that flowed from a desire

01:39:36.120 for others to uh be fulfilled it was the politics of self-help really um i you can only help yourself

01:39:45.800 if you're free and so the person who's going to help you be that is the person who's going to help you

01:39:51.560 become more yourself it never seemed adversarial it never seemed ideological it seemed natural it

01:39:58.200 seemed to come from a great american tradition and now that he's gone because i'm a writer i want to

01:40:05.320 place him in a tradition i want to say who is he mark twain well mark twain was a very pessimistic bitter

01:40:12.280 person uh who believed that the human race had just as about effed everything up that it could and

01:40:19.080 may have been better off never having been you know born he scott was like twain in that he could

01:40:25.400 surprise you and he could turn a phrase but he was a lot more positive was he will rogers you know never

01:40:31.400 met a man he didn't like well i kind of get the feeling that he didn't you know he maybe disliked

01:40:38.040 them on second meeting but i on first meeting he he probably liked them quite a bit what he really never

01:40:45.720 met that he didn't like was a problem or a difficulty that he couldn't see as an opportunity

01:40:54.040 and the people who used to say things to that like that to me when i was young used to irritate me

01:41:00.120 you know oh every you know every difficulty is a challenge every you know every failure is a new

01:41:08.360 chance to win in a new way or something i i found those people endlessly annoying why didn't he annoy me

01:41:15.480 when he said those things what was it about scott because i could see he was living them and i could

01:41:21.480 see it was working it wasn't like my school counselors who i knew had problems um i mean i knew

01:41:30.600 and and as he and his life as his life went on and as i and as i followed him more intensely on the

01:41:37.160 rowing machine because he made me want to do things like row um i found myself getting stronger and

01:41:44.520 stronger in these years after my dad died and then about last spring uh i saw that he was perhaps

01:41:54.440 dying and on the uh i think it was the 26th of 20 22nd of may i i made a tweet i said i'm a little

01:42:02.840 uncomfortable with people who are acting like scott adams says is gone already while we're here we're here

01:42:09.560 and he's here none of us know what tomorrow will bring for ourselves or for anyone else life is now

01:42:17.080 that was that was last may and there was a feeling right then that those were his last days

01:42:23.960 he got back to me uh on uh june 30th schrodinger's cartoonist

01:42:32.120 by that he meant something that i think we should keep in mind today in the schrodinger's

01:42:40.280 cat experiment it is possible that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time depending on

01:42:46.040 the observer there may be a sense in which he's not dead there may be a sense in which depending

01:42:52.760 on the observer in our point of view scott is in one universe just as alive as he ever was

01:42:58.920 and that we can maybe switch perspective sometimes to make sure that we understand that

01:43:06.360 he was a complex thinker he was the guy who when i felt stupid and wanted to rip off an idea

01:43:13.720 i i went and listened to him and then i waited a few days for everybody else to forget and then i

01:43:19.240 rephrased it uh um you know he gave it all away he gave everything away and i remember watching his

01:43:27.960 show for clues to who he was i said okay why doesn't he make a real studio um because he doesn't

01:43:35.720 have to that's not his mission to make things fancy okay why does he wear glasses like that he

01:43:42.680 could get contacts um because it's easier why does he use his kitchen his kitchen is nice but it's not

01:43:51.240 the nicest kitchen i've ever seen uh i'm aware for some reason that he has means but he hasn't made

01:43:59.000 his kitchen that fancy those are 80s cabinets um and and i just thought this guy is he is he's will

01:44:08.600 rogers he's dale carnegie he's norman vincent peel he's art link letter he's all those people who all are

01:44:17.880 versions of the same person in america who isn't pretentious who isn't showing us that what they

01:44:24.120 have that we don't have who's absolutely speaking straight across the table and but the last person

01:44:31.080 he reminded me of is someone you guys might not know a few might know him well his name was bill

01:44:37.000 wilson he started alcoholics anonymous and he was a guy who sort of

01:44:42.840 he met everybody where they were welcomed them in and and the only at a a meeting they say the only

01:44:52.360 uh the only reason you you can be here or the only thing that allows you to be here is a desire to

01:45:01.000 stop drinking going to a scott adams uh podcast you never felt late you never felt like you'd missed

01:45:10.840 you know come in too late like you missed the first part of the semester you always felt welcome

01:45:16.280 you always felt like the only uh qualification to be there was a desire to lose your self-pity

01:45:25.640 and a desire to think and until the very last moment that's what he allowed for me

01:45:33.160 the people who knew him i feel a little sorry for because they got to know the real scott adams

01:45:43.640 and i got to know that scott adams and he was perfect and he i never saw him

01:45:50.920 you know in a weak moment i never saw anything but his 80s kitchen his smile

01:45:57.560 his glasses his positive attitude he will forever be a saint for me as he will be for

01:46:07.400 all his listeners i think i do think in a sense in a just slightly tilted universe he's

01:46:14.520 he's still with us thank you thanks walter uh now some uh the closing remarks from shelley adams

01:46:27.400 thank you so

01:46:39.560 and on live stream

01:46:43.560 celebrate scott

01:46:47.720 it's everything he would have wanted and more i mean

01:46:50.920 i want to give a special thank you to greg for hosting the ceremony today

01:47:06.280 and everybody who shared stories and memories today hearing them remind reminded me just how much

01:47:13.960 how loved scott was and how many lives he has touched i also wanted to thank my husband pat

01:47:23.000 my daughter savannah my sister shauna and my cousin brie and all the family and friends who've helped me

01:47:30.600 get here today and have supported me through everything i couldn't have done it without you

01:47:36.280 a heartful thank you as well to jay plemmons for putting together the beautiful slideshow it captured

01:47:46.040 scott's spirit so well and to the locals team owen erica marcella and sergio thank you for being

01:47:54.920 patient with me and for stepping in to keep scott's live stream going we will figure it out

01:48:02.440 the plan for long term but it means so much to me to know that his work is still being cared for

01:48:09.640 thank you again for being here and for for surrounding scott and me with so much love

01:48:29.000 i guess that

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