B (2:54)

Good morning.

A (2:56)

And we have our beloved Shelly. And we asked Shelley to bring a special guest with her who she's going to introduce properly. But he's a great friend of Scott's and really moved me as Scott's memorial service, which is what we're going to talk about today. And I thought, who better? Because we don't get to know so much about Scott's personal life. Like, we think we know everything, you guys. We don't know anything. So Quinn is going to help shed light. But first, let me introduce Shelley, and then she'll take it from there.

E (3:31)

Hi, everybody. Yes, that's Quinn. I. Quinn's been a long time friend of Scott's through pretty much, you know, all the time I've been with him, and Quinn's been a family friend, so we're gonna definitely want to ask him some questions. I'm sure everybody will have some questions for him. But, yeah, I just wanted. I thought it would be a good time just for us to chat about, you know, the day, what it was like, what Scott wanted. So I think, Erica, I think you can kind of kick it off and let's. Let's talk about it.

A (4:10)

Okay? So I, you know, I have to say, the things that struck me. I was very impressed by the amount of security, might I add. We all felt safe. That was very. An interesting surprise. There was lots of security there, guys. Lots of that was interesting, as you.

E (4:30)

Say, the security, because, you know, of course, I wanted to make sure it was safe for the family and. But what an interesting dynamic of working with the local PD and the security and just how that all works, because, you know, I've never experienced that before. So it was very interesting. But they worked well. I had a great, great security team. It went very smoothly. So thanks.

A (4:56)

I'll say. Yeah.

E (4:57)

Yeah.

A (4:58)

And you know what? It's like, it was nice that you even thought that through, because that's like the world we're in now, guys, right? So it's like, okay, you know, you got to keep everyone safe. You never know. And I thought that was impressive and thoughtful. It was interesting, too, to get there. I mean, I didn't know what to expect, like, how many people. It was intimate, you guys. It was intimate, and it made it just feel like you really got to know people even before the service started because everybody was so friendly and talking and mingling. And, you know, Quinn came up to me and I said, oh, wait, I know you. I'm like, are you a neighbor? I'm like, weren't you playing ping pong with Scott in the man cave the one day? And he's like, yes. And I said, oh, my God. So some of you on local, Scott would just turn on the camera sometimes just to hang out with us. Like he loved us as much as we love him. And so it just seemed like a miracle that day. There was Scott, like, Having this medical rebound and playing ping pong. And that was with Quinn. Quinn, right, like that. That was a crazy day. Right?

F (6:11)

It was. And, and I'll kind of back up and thank you guys for, for let me be here and talk about. It was a good day. And you know, credit to Shelley. I know you guys all saw it, mentioned it, but there was so much going on for her and her ability to mourn and organize was just, it was unfair to be honest. I mean the level of what she was trying to accomplish for everybody. So big, big shout out to her for that because she, she needed it. But she also built her skill stack. She's an event planner, knows how to arrange security audio so she's better for it. But it was pretty impressive what she achieved. But yes, it, the ping pong tennis was very competitive as you guys probably saw through the things. Because I will tell you what we see online is as much Scott as anything. There's a deeper person behind it, but he was very transparent. So you did get to see who the real, real man was. There was just things that he cared about that he didn't talk about. And that was the kids as I mentioned at the, at the service. But yeah, ping pong. It was amazing because he went on their hormone blockers because before that he's in a wheelchair, can't do anything. I see him and then a week later, two weeks later, he's beat me in ping pong. And I made comment. Everybody, you know, 68 year old man, cancer meds, pain meds, and I'm still losing, you know, three out of five matches to him. So he was, he never, never, he was always competitive.

A (7:44)

So that's where we knew Quinn from. When I, when I saw Quinn, I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So. But it was, everybody was really sweet. I was looking for Shelly. I knew she was going to be busy, but Shelly, I couldn't wait to see you in person and you guys, not to embarrass you, Shelly, but Shelly is first of all beautiful inside and out. You looked gorgeous. You definitely, I know a lot was going on with the audio visual stuff, but we're very composed and pulled together and you guys, she's just so cute too. She's like petite and cute and like just a good hugger and felt made me feel very welcomed and the other simultaneous zippers that were there with us and so I just appreciated that. Like I felt like I've known you forever. And you guys, Marcella and Sergio and Owen, didn't you feel like that too, when you met Shelley?

B (8:44)

Absolutely, yeah.

G (8:45)

She was like, you know, the feeling you get is, I thought it would be awkward. And like, there's these famous people. Shell's like this. This big, bigger than life person or something. But everybody was so, like family. Everybody was so nice, you know. And Pat, actually, Shelly's husband, is the first one that came up to us and he hugged us and I was like, who are you? You're hugging me. And then he explained it was him. And I just, you know, I. I.

E (9:19)

Don'T know if Owen had the same.

G (9:20)

Experience or Sergio, but I. I felt very. I didn't feel nervous anymore after I met them.

B (9:29)

Yeah, definitely. I mean, I. I think it was. It was very welcoming, very, you know, it was. It was an inspiring service, too. And I wasn't really sure what to expect, like, how solemn it would be or, you know, what the vibe would be. And certainly there was some sadness, you know, when it was quiet before we started and things like that. But really, as soon as the speakers started, it was like, you know, we start off with Trump talking about how, you know, in sort of a funny way, how Scott had been loyal from day one and things like that. And, you know, of course Greg is the mc, kept it kind of humorous. And everybody was just talking about all the positive things about Scott and all the things he taught us, and it was just amazing to me. It was like I posted online, I thought it was the most useful service of its kind in history. Like, I. You could just implement what you heard on that one live stream and you'd have a successful life. Like, it was amazing to me.

C (10:26)

He made a micro lesson of his, you know, last funeral memorial. That's so. So, Scott, I liked what you said about the security, Erica, because when I first got there, my first impression was like, wow, this is serious, right? This is big time. And I was like, I was the only one carrying the only man with a man purse, basically. And I was worried about being. But it was fine. Quinn, you were like such a light a son to me. When you came to me and say hello, and I was like, wow, people know me. And you were amazing. And. And what I want to say the most is that when I say, like, I don't want to be divisive when I say, you know, some of us do pre shows and some of us didn't, you know, it was just like, when I said that, it was just because when I got to the house, I felt like I knew the house already, right? And I was like, oh, let Me give you a tour. And it was great that I got the tour, but it felt like many here on the show, on YouTube, everywhere, X, not just locals, have met Scott deeply. So I have nothing else to say about that. So that was wonderful. Thank you.

G (11:49)

What I was gonna add is, oh, my God, Quinn, you did such a great job because there's all these professionals like Gutfeld and Mike Cernovich and Michael Malice alter Kern, and then here you are, you were going to give the speech and so was Shelly. And so I, I'm really in awe of, of, you know, the fact that you, even though through the morning and grief, you still did like an amazing job.

A (12:22)

You did. You really did.

F (12:24)

Thank you. He gave us plenty of time to prep. The good part was, is, you know, it wasn't sudden, so there was plenty of time with him leading up to it. So there was those emotional times with them, but you had that mental buildup of strength to get there. But, yeah, a lot of support. So thank you.

C (12:44)

Celebrity wise, I saw one of the strongest men I ever met. Why are you laughing, Marcella? But, you know, I was trying to find a place where nobody could see me, right? So I went to the side which Shelley put us in an area where it was easy to access the microphone and all that for the speakers, right? So I sat all the way in the back and on the other side I saw this. I'm not going to say who it was, you know, and he was sitting there and in seeing a strong man suffer like that, in silent, without tears or anything. Owen, do you see that omen too? Like, that was really got to me when I saw that. And that's when I understood that it was nothing ordinary, it was historic.

B (13:34)

Yeah, I think so. I mean, Scott just meant so much to all of us. And, you know, we've talked about this before, but I think it was just like he was everybody's best friend. And, you know, he, I think, set that up in the way he did his show where he just created this bonding experience where it was like sitting down with your best friend and talking about the news over coffee every single day for 10 years. And it's kind of like, how could you not think that he was like one of your closest friends if you, if you're one of the people that was there for 10 years or even less, but, you know, sitting down every day, talking over coffee, it's just like this intimate experience. It's kind of really unique. It's not like any other podcast or show, and it just really feels like, you're really getting to know this guy. He talks about all his problems and vulnerabilities and how he's feeling about things, and it was just amazing. And I think he just developed this really close relationship with everybody he was dealing with.

A (14:29)

Also, when you look at the range of speakers, you know, Shelly, I love that we were, like, all sitting in that one section, actually, because we, like, we're all, like, sort of the same mindset over there. And, like, we know who Scott's podcast friends were and mentors were. And so it was like, we could all, like, we were probably laughing so hard at times when no one else got the joke. And so that felt so good to just like, okay, I'm not the only one that thought that was funny or whatever, like, the little inside jokes. But to see the range of speakers and how emotionally touched they all were. Like, for example, when Naval came on toward the end, you know, if somebody doesn't know Naval, like, he's Scott's smartest friend. Scott would say, he's the smartest person I know. And then when Naval spoke beautifully, of course, and when he said that Scott was one of his mentors, like, I almost just lost it. I was just like, wow, Scott's one of his mentors, you know? And then you have my friend Michael Malice. Okay, so we're texting a few days before, and he sends me a text, and he says, I just purchased a Dilbert mask from the 90s off of eBay. And he's like, do you approve? And I said, oh, my God, are you gonna wear it? And he's like, if you approve. I'm like, I totally approve. Like, Scott would totally approve. Like, yeah, do it. He's like, I hope it gets here, because Monday's a holiday, and, you know, and then I've got to travel and this and that. So. But it was so funny because he was just like, I really think Scott would love it. And, you know, and I think that, you know, everybody there that knows Scott would get the joke. And I said, for sure. But I'll tell you, he. He wanted me to introduce him to Greg GUTFELD and to Dr. Drew and everybody. And I said, oh, how do you want me to do that? And he said, you know, just take me by the arm and walk me up, because I'll have the mask on, and they won't know who I am. And he said, you know, just say, hey, Greg, I want you to meet my friend Dilbert. And then, you know, he's like, and I'm going To have this little whiteboard, and I have all these jokes written out, and I was just like, oh, my God. So it was cute. Of course, when Michael walked in and I brought him over, everybody was just like, hey, Malice. Before he even got up there. But he did put it on to come up for a speech. And he, you know, he really wanted to honor Scott. And then. So Michael Malice is another brilliant, brilliant mind with an amazing, smart sense of humor. And like, he said, you know, when Scott Adams validates you and says, like, you know, follow this guy's podcast, or he's really funny, like, it really, really meant something. And so, you know, and then you have, like, another more serious, total admirer of Scott, like in Joshua Lysack or in Jack Posobec. And then Mike Cernovich, who Scott credits with launching his career onto the Twitter platform because he said, I wouldn't have had that validation without Mike. Mike's come into his own. And. And the death of Scott really has affected him to the point where he said, if I cry right now, I don't care. You know, it's. It's important. And that's what really struck me. So I basically sobbed like a baby the whole time. Like, if anyone's voice cracked, it was over for me. I had, like, a wad of tissues up to my face. But I think that that was amazing. And, Quinn, everything you said about the family and the kids, I don't want to monopolize. I'm just trying to paint a picture. Everything was so meaningful because Scott was very private about his family, which is perfect. But the kids love him so much, and I just appreciated you, like, letting us all in on that for the live stream. I'm going to be quiet for a minute. Sorry. Thanks.

F (18:36)

No, no. And thank you again. Just one for. For the audience is his loyalty and belonging in that family. But once Scott's in your corner, he's in your corner. The loyalty, the protection, and obviously the kids growing up because they were, I don't know, Shelly, Savannah, maybe six, eight. I don't know how old they were at the time when. And then Justin. So we've got a daughter Savannah's age and Justin's, and that's. We saw Scott and Shelly every weekend at the soccer games or the volleyball tournaments and all that kind of stuff for the hangout. But he wanted the best for them. And, I mean, a lot of his focus, it was. There was always them in his mind, regardless of what he was doing. And again, the behind the scenes, you saw that more Than he did it here and talked about him. But again, you saw with Justin also, he took on china, so he didn't think small, that's for sure. So he loved those kids dearly.

A (19:32)

Queen.

E (19:33)

Yeah, go ahead, Go ahead.

C (19:36)

Oh, I had a question for Quinn, because, Queen, you show me the man cave. You gave me that tour of the man cave, which I appreciate. You saw me, you saw me mopey on the corner there. You came over and you said, okay, and you sat down and said, I want to show you something. And you took me over there, and that was the most meaningful thing that happened to me that day, the way you took me there and you showed me that the Dilber cartoon that he drew on the wall where there was. There was a hole, and it was punched through. So you. You told. You showed me that. And. And I actually, I didn't take a photo. I froze right there. Then I asked Shelly, Shelly, can you please take that photo? And I had running around the house taking photos of everything until she finally sent it to me, the right one. I was like, oh, I'm sorry, Shelley, I'm wasting you so much time. But Queen, tell me any more. I don't want to ask you how the hole was made, because that might be personal. But any. Any other stories that you would like to share that you didn't share on the. On the. On the. On the big service?

F (20:46)

No. And so in the original garage. And again, Scott had a nice house, but he would never lavish, never anything. So it's a drywall garage. And he built it up over time, but. And Shelly, I don't remember, but there was a dent in the drywall. And so he drew a big Dilbert character underneath, punching up like he was hitting a hole in the wall. And I, over the time, Scott would use that as. I'm not changing that dent or because he wanted to impact the world, he wanted to dent the universe was his kind of concept, and that was his reminder and as he moved in the garage. But I think one of the things. And I haven't heard it talked about, and I'd love your guys take on it, but as he talks about story arcs and Act 1, Act 2 of Trump, but he went throughout that thing. As I was preparing for the memorial, I was thinking about that as Scott's life. Little kid from the middle of nowhere New York town moves to the big city, makes it big, gets canceled. How does the hero recover from that story? And then he explodes and goes private and says, now my creativity is. I'm unhandcuffed Here I go. It makes a huge thing and a huge recovery. And then obviously, the final act of being raw and transparent on dying in public every day. Here I am until I'm dead. So it's just amazing, man. Go ahead.

D (22:09)

Sorry, sir.

C (22:10)

No, sorry I'm interrupting you. Sorry. I do that all the time. Sorry. Apologize. That's the only Dilbert cartoon with the mouth, too. One of Kimberly, actually, the one to say, like, sir, that's the only one. He's got his mouth open, and he has no mouth in any other deal birds. So, you know, if somebody wanted to buy that cartoon, you need to buy the house, basically, Right? So that was the. Because that's a collectible. That's the only one I've seen like that. So.

F (22:37)

And again, I looked at that a million times. Sergio never paid attention to the mouth or no mouth. I mean, I just never. So thank you. Have to go look at that again. But, yeah, but now just at that story arc. And so I'll let you guys go ahead. But just.

B (22:54)

I definitely think it was that kind of story arc, the hero's journey. You know, he. He had that call to adventure when he left to come to California, and he's talked about that as a way of managing energy, but just kind of, you know, getting out of his small town, having his, you know, sort of misadventures, I guess, in his corporate life and how that kind of spawned the whole Dilbert thing. And then that was obviously a huge part of his life for. For. For a very long time. And, you know, then he. He sort of probably accidentally got into politics with Trump. You know, I don't. I. I don't think when he wrote that article, he thought it was going to have anywhere near the impact that it did, but it kind of forced him public about that in a way he probably didn't even intend. I don't even know if he was a Trump supporter at that point. I think he was just calling what. Calling it how he saw it. But then, you know, the way our political field is so polarized, it was almost like he didn't have a choice. Like, he'd either have to recant, which he wasn't gonna do, or he had to just embrace it. And so he embraced it. And, you know, I think as a person who did watch him back from the Periscope days, you know, he really did, I think, change a lot of his views or, you know, evolve as we watched. And, you know, early. Early on, it was kind of like every conspiracy theory that would come up in the news he'd be like, oh no, that's not that. You know, that's not real. You know, he would always be poo pooing it and saying that's not a thing. And, and later on he was kind of the opposite. He was like, you know what? I think this is all real. And you know, never, never the full everything. But you know, he kind of, I think at least at one point commented even on the Joe Rogan thing when he said sort of the same thing where he's like, at this point, I might even believe we didn't go to the moon. Like, I don't know. And so it was just amazing to watch as he changed and certainly the cancellation I think had a big impact on him, but he bounced back very quickly. I remember him talking about that day saying, I feel fine. And so he certainly took it in stride and. But I think it was a traumatic experience to an extent and certainly it would have to be to say, okay, all of a sudden my big income stream is gone from Dilbert and I'm not published anymore and I got to figure out what to do next and. But he very quickly bounced back. I think he really appreciated all the support he got from locals through that experience. And I, as far as I can tell, he was very successful with his, you know, Dilbert subscriptions and Dilbert Reborn and the calendars and, and everything else that he did after that. So certainly I see that whole story arc you're talking about. I think it was pretty amazing to watch.

F (25:38)

Yeah. And yes, you put Scott on Prisoner island and he would talk about that. I mean, for years it was amazing. But he just had mental muscle. If you put him in a box, he's going to get out and he's going to come out. I mean it just, it was very impressive to be around and I saw behind the scenes as you guys were coming online, he told me, oh, I've got people behind the scenes sending me news articles or way back when with Cernovich and getting on X and if I get a million followers, I'm going to be able to rule the world kind of thing. It just, it was never small with Scott in terms of just what he thought potential was and there was one and who knows, I don't know what episode but where he just talks at the beginning that the system is just trying. That's it. System is just trying and putting yourself out there. And he was example of it for, for us in a lot of ways, but also just a good friend, loyal. I Mean, very trustworthy.

A (26:35)

Quinn. I love that, you know, all of the ins and outs of his show and everything to that, like, really meant a lot to us because you had both sides of it going, like, the personal life and the friendship, and then you really understood, you know, the simultaneous zippers and the livestream and the nuance, and you just really brought them both together. And, uh, I feel like. I feel like everybody on this live stream right now was very well representative represented and remembered. And Shelly, your friend Carrie, like, so cute at the house. Like, we did the simultaneous sip together. Like, we, you know, we just, like, launched into it. And I love how many of his friends, you know, really knew what he was doing. Like, genuinely. That was cool.

E (27:27)

Yes. There's something else I wanted to talk about, too. I know my speech was mostly about how we met, because I felt like that's probably, you know, how. How did I come into his life? I think a lot of people didn't know. Just one day I appeared next to him in the live stream, and, you know, everybody's like, who is that? He quickly introduced me. And so therefore not a lot of people knew, like, the backstory. So I felt that was the probably the most important thing to talk about. Just because I wanted to, you know, he kept us private. And, you know, there was a reason for that. And. But there was so much more I wanted to say. I mean, just there. There is so much more. And I hope I can, you know, gradually share this with you, but since we have Quinn on here, one piece that you do know about Scott is just how generous he is, especially with this time. I mean, this is the part that, you guys know, because he would spend hours with you. I mean, it could have been 50 people. And he told me this, like, oh, I'm gonna do, you know, this. And there's probably only going to be 50 people on. But those 50 people need me, and I'm gonna do it. And so his time that he spent just. Just how generous he was with this time. Um, but also he was very generous in other ways. And that's probably part of, you know, just. You probably can imagine him being generous in other ways, but he was overly generous. Um, you know, there was. I guess there's a quote I was going to read a quote that I think he said. Let me see if I can find this. He's quoting something like this. There's not no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. This reflects the idea of even the basic generosity and that basic generosity matters. So that's how he lived his life. I mean, he really lived his life to give to others. And whether it was financially, I mean, he didn't want anything from.

A (29:52)

He.

E (29:52)

He Trying to convince him to spend money on himself was just like, what? I'm not gonna pay that for that. What are you talking about? I'm like, but you're willing to tip, you know, all the servers, crazy amounts of money. You're, you know, you're willing to help, you know, anybody in need. And I. I know most of you probably don't know this, but he was very generous to his family, to his friends, anyone in need. He had just this. Every year, he would. Towards the end of the year, Christmas time, he would just pick someone. Someone that, you know, he's run across that he thought maybe, you know, what, $5,000, you know, whatever the amount is, it could probably help their Christmas, you know, or his employees. He overpaid all of his employees. He always gave bonuses. You know, he. He opened two restaurants, which, you know, the first restaurant was successful, but he just poured his money into it, and it really wasn't, you know, he wasn't making money from it. He was just giving back. And I just think that he did this in so many ways. And I mean, especially for me, when we. He's a smart guy. Every relationship he was in, he did make sure an agreement was signed. He's not a stupid guy. But with that, you know, he made sure the kids had college funds. You know, he made sure that he actually. He actually bought us a house, definitely in walking distance, just two streets over, because he wanted us close. You know, he's definitely a generous man in. In. In strangers and people he loved. And I know Quinn, maybe he could talk about this a little bit more. But, you know, he wanted. He wanted to start businesses, and Quinn was one of them that he worked with. With trying to start a business. And he. And I want Quinn to talk a little bit more about it, but he was. Scott wasn't going to give up. I want. I want Quinn to be successful on this. And, you know, maybe Quinn, you can chime in here on this, but turn on your mic and let's talk about that a little bit.

F (32:25)

Yeah, I mean, very generous indeed, and without wanting something in return. And it was quiet, you know, that's always the best kind, you know, don't let your left hand know what your right hand's doing when it comes to giving those kind of things. So Scott had that mentality for sure. And, yeah, as we were going through kids events or whatever, we're talking about scheduling and calendar issues and we both had our tech issues. So there were real fixes within calendars. But we. So we said, oh, let's start. And he was just blogging at the time and he goes, okay, well I'll try and find some tech support. So he blogs out, we find incubator company out of Australia and they help us. We started this little calendar tree thing for scheduling and that involved. Over the years we're going, okay, that's. There's no traction in calendaring. At least there was a us. And then we tried an approach app which was just geolocation sharing temporary. As a business we're trying to do that. And then we did Interface, which was two way video dialogue and it was supposed to be between experts. And so at the time, and I want to say this is right about 2014, 15, somewhere around there. And Scott gets into the persuasion side of politics and then Covid comes around and it's. Nobody's trusting the experts. Well, our app was purely expert to expert kind of thing. So it was totally. He was calling out experts saying, you're not there. So that was just. So we laughed. I mean it was a lot if we didn't achieve anything through it. But you learned as you went and Scott was committed to it. For me personally, wanting to make it work. And I don't know if it was you, Marcel or Erica, there was something Scott would tell you and I know he's written about it, is he can. He could see the future. Like I can envision 2020, I can envision 2021. And in 2014 or right before he did the political thing, I picture something big next year in 2015 and we're hoping it's the little business that could. It could and get it going. And it was all the political. His prediction on Trump and that was the big thing. He just knew it was coming. So uh. But yes, to Shelley's point again, did well and was very generous. Never on himself again. He'd buy one car at a garage, three car garage and it was full of stuff, ping pong tables and stuff. No sports cars, no flange, fancy anything. So just a very humble guy at the end of the day that obviously was very successful in pretty much everything he put his mind to when it came to business. But.

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A (35:32)

I want everyone to know that the. All the kids were there. Christina's two girls and Savannah. And you know what I saw, Shelly, was Christina's girls, like, run over to you and, you know, like, they clearly adore you, too. And I was, like, so heartwarmed. And I was just like, this is like one big, you know, blended family at the end of the day. And, like, I'm going to get choked up because I was just like, I could tell that they, like, love you and, like, they're comfortable in the house and, like, they know everybody. Like, Scott, really, you guys, Scott really had so much love around him, and we didn't know, you know, the ins and outs of his every day. And a lot of people thought, like, Scott was really lonely and, like, you know, was just in this house by himself all the time. He definitely was surrounded by so much love and such a beautiful family and amazing, amazing friends that I feel like listening at this service. Also, like, to you, Quinn, and. And John, his tennis partner, what he said about, like, if there was a questionable point, Scott's like, ah, you take it, you know, whatever. Like, it was just like this, like, big, loving dynamic, and it made me feel just so happy and. And warm, and the house is full of love and, I don't know, it meant a lot to see the kids there and all of that, too.

G (37:01)

Don't forget Shauna, Shelley's sister. She was so funny. She's like, because we made coffee at Scott's coffee maker, and it didn't want to work for me. And I think Sergio had the same thing. And I was like, why is it not working? And she's like, wait for it. I think it's Scott. And I was like, you know, and we were standing in front of it, and we were like, is it him that is, like, blocking it? And then. And then it took, like, maybe longer than usual courage. And she made me laugh. And then she's like, okay, now work. And it worked.

B (37:42)

And.

G (37:42)

And she was funny, too, because she's like, I needed a stir. And she's like, oh, I forgot to buy that. But here's the spoon. Don't tell anyone. She's just amazing. Shauna was like, so amazing. And the most amazing thing is that she knew us too. And so did Quinn and so did all his family. They are very aware of the Beloveds. They're aware of everybody in the chat. That's something that. That shows the love they had for Scott and still have. And it's just so, so warm. But I. I did want to bring up a question that came up. Quinn, in the chat. They wanted to get a little further about how you guys met, how you and Scott met.

F (38:31)

Well, it was through Shelly again, Savannah and our daughter the same age. And again we met. They started dating or I don't. I'm assuming you were dating Shelly, but came to one of the girls soccer games and it was just after the match. Shelly introduced us and then you start seeing them at the other games and then we just start hanging out from there. And then we. Scott organized our. I don't know, was it 35, an older soccer co ed team. And again, at the time, say I'm 35. I don't dates exactly, but Scott was like 50, so he's like 14 years old or whatever. And I'm thinking he's such an old man.

G (39:07)

We're.

F (39:07)

There's no way this is going to work out. But he was always fit, always in shape. You know, he played a lot of tennis and club, went to the club and all that kind of stuff. But so just over time it was just that. And then we just hang out, we go to.

B (39:21)

Again.

F (39:21)

He stayed at home if he wasn't at the gym or somewhere. So it was often at the house and it was. Taught me how to play tennis and he was just a good instructor. I think one of the things that he's so good at communicating, he could break things down. And even when it came to teaching you how to play tennis and how to hold the racket and all that stuff.

B (39:39)

But that was any soccer coaching?

F (39:43)

No, he. He wasn't one of the coaches.

B (39:45)

We.

F (39:45)

I did the coaching side, but no, he never. I don't recall him coaching either soccer or volleyball with the boys. And Justin was the baseball team. I've got a couple pitchers I was going to share with Shelley yesterday. I forgot Shelley to show you the Dodgers with Justin and then the pink. I don't know the girl's team name, but was that. It was from that meeting. I think that's the book that they gave me. It's a little soccer ball photo book from the kids with Savannah and then. But I think I was trying to look for the exact date of that game, but it's not there. It's just the year. But, but that's, that's it, Eric.

E (40:21)

So yeah, it was. Go ahead.

G (40:24)

I was just wondering, so in soccer, did he win then? Because you're like, oh, this old man.

F (40:29)

And then like, oh, no, we were a pretty decent team. We had Shelly and my wife pretty similar. And then we. Two other families and then they were there at the service. One family was and then another. Matt Shocker, who's really good friend as Scott's as well, very good soccer player. I think he played in other leagues and things like that. But yeah, we were, we were a solid team until we went up with the 20 year old teams. Then we. Indoor soccer is a lot harder than you think. If your kids are playing and you're yelling at them to keep running and they look tired, go try it first and then you'll realize that it is very tiring.

B (41:06)

So yeah, I was just wondering about him coaching because I remember him saying he was really good at soccer and I could imagine him maybe being, you know, wanting to step in and show things to people and stuff, but if you had good coaches and other people that had a lot of talent, I'm sure he probably would have been happy to sit back and watch.

E (41:21)

Oh, he set up soccer for the kids in the backyard. So he would, he would teach them on their, you know, he would use the kids as his teaching. So yeah, he definitely, he definitely got them out there in the backyard and hit the soccer ball.

A (41:38)

I also want to add to that. I'm obsessed with Savannah. I love her. And that's Shelly's daughter. And Jacob, he's so sweet. That's Shelly's. Shelly, that's Savannah's husband. They're newlyweds and they like, even Jacob was like, oh yeah, you know, I see you guys on the live stream and you know, everybody's aware of this part of Scott's life and you know, so I can just tell you, you guys, like, like he really loved all of us. And, and so after the show, sometimes I'll go back and like look at the comments on locals and peek at some of the comments on YouTube, which I don't recommend, but you guys, the locals, you know, we, we just are, we know more about Scott because of all the pre shows, the show, the post show, the man Cave, the 2A days during COVID the hey, I'm just turning my computer on and I'm gonna make soup today. And you're in my kitchen now. Now we have a cooking show. Or, hey, help me draw my Dilbert comic. Like, we, the locals. I highly recommend you guys, like, come over to the locals community.

C (42:57)

It was the only fans. It was the only fans.

A (42:59)

Only fans with Scott. Yeah. It was so intimate.

C (43:04)

Yeah.

A (43:04)

Yeah. Always Scott. And so we, you know, we had so much more of Scott. But when I read the comments on the locals live streams, I like you guys. I love you guys so much. It's just such an amazing group. Everybody's so loving and caring. Like, you really built this family. And some of us have known each other here. Here for 10 years. And. And then you think of all the hours that you could log in a day with Scott. I mean, some days I think I probably spent five or six hours on a live stream with Scott, you know, and that's. It's a lot. So I just want you guys to know how much Scott, like, truly loves you guys. And not that I didn't already love you, but I love you guys so much more. Just seeing what an amazing family this is. I'm not gonna cry. And also how much Scott's family and friends love all of you guys, too. And I wanted to say that. So remember, you guys, when Scott was making his museum in the house, the Dilbert museum, and he would, like, show us, like, this was my desk, and this was here. And so Savannah kind of finished that up, and she made the museum beautiful. And so Shelly took us up, like, in groups or whatever to just see it, because you can't put everybody in there at once. And, you know, and I love seeing it and whatever. And then Shelly's like, okay. It was like kind of like the podcasting group, like, the speakers that you saw and his, you know, and the four of us. And so Shelly just said, do you guys want to see Scott's office? Because it wasn't open for people to walk in there.

D (44:47)

And.

A (44:47)

And, you know, we were like, yes, yes, yes. And when she opened the door and you just see his desk now, I might cry. That's like, that. Shelly saw me. That hit me hard. But that was like, that's the museum. To me, like, that was just, like, his energy, and it's what we looked at every day for all those hours. And his. His. His blanket was folded, and, you know, I had to put my hand on the blanket. It's so soft, you guys. I wish I could have given you, like, a cashmere or angora blanket, but it would have been so expensive. But it's so soft and. And One thing you might not know is there's a ton of room behind that desk. Like, you know how Scott would, like, push himself off and, like, roll to the back to get something. It's very big back there. And. But I think we were all really moved by that. And, Shelly, I just have to thank you because as emotional as it made me, it was just very special. Thank you. Sorry, guys.

E (45:52)

So just a little bit more about the locals.

A (45:54)

I just.

E (45:54)

Since you were, you know, talking about the locals, I know Scott did a lot of extra for the locals, and we. That is our plan going forward. Just bear with. Bear with me right now. But we hope to transition so. So that the local grit gets more time. So I just wanted to let everybody know that you're not forgotten. And we're gonna try to. I know we're doing the Dilbert comic strip there, and we're taking, you know, kind of from the beginning, taking a week out of the first year and kind of moving on to through the years, maybe taking a week for those locals, and we'll continue to do more for the locals. So going forward.

A (46:38)

And also, that's what Scott wanted, you guys. So we're not Scott. We're not trying to be Scott. Nobody can be Scott. The Coffee With Scott Adams show lives on its own, and Scott had ideas of what he wanted to happen after he wasn't here anymore. That's what we're doing. So it's not like just, yeah, we're working it out and figuring it out, but it's not, like, haphazard. Like, he had ideas of what he wanted. He wanted us to remain a community and remain together, have our simultaneous sip. Sometimes we have guests, but really locals. He really wants you guys to stay together. We want more people to come over, but, yeah, his micro lessons are going to be there. They're not going to be on YouTube. He really had a vision for it. So I know it feels weird and it feels different and maybe not everybody's going to like this, and that's okay, too. Maybe you just want to come in and have the simultaneous sip with us and go about your day. We would love that, too. Or maybe some days feel better to you than others. But just know that we know that we're not Scott and we're not trying to be, but we. We've all been students of his for a long time and have love and respect for him and are always going to try to just do right by him. So we hope you understand that.

C (48:03)

Eric, I have a couple of stories from the Day, if you don't mind, because there was no coffee at the service, right? I don't know if it was on purpose to get us, like, to crave it more. I don't know if a scat planned at all, like, some kind of elaborate scheme, but I was like, there has to be coffee, right? There was no coffee. So we got to the house and made a beeline for the coffee machine. I started pushing the buttons like a smart man trying to do it. It wouldn't work. Jay Plemons, the best, the Akira of clips, came over and plugged it in. He plugged it in, and I was like, wow, okay, this is Scott doing all this right now, right? But then Shauna, I want to mention Shona, she also was, like, queen, approached me. I was there mopping, and she came over and said, like, let me give you a tour. And she took me over to the office, and because I missed the group tour, so she took me there, and it was an amazing experience. It was like the holy land right there. It felt something strong. But then Owen and I went to see Gary and Roman, and that was amazing. And we took a lot of photos, and I said, like, I'm gonna make the girl so jealous. You'll see. And Owen, he, I never seen anybody handle kittens that way. Amazing. Owen, you want to tell us more about that? Because I'm learning how to handle my cat.

A (49:40)

Only if the locals chat inserts all of the inappropriate jokes about how Owen handles kittens. Okay, then, then let's go. Go, Ellen.

B (49:50)

I, I, I would what I would say, you know, I've had a number of cats over the years. My very first pet was a cat, and that one was, you know, totally docile. You could hold it any kind of way you wanted to. It would never get upset. It wasn't weird or demanding like a lot of cats are. But I've had a lot of the weird cats, too, that are very picky about, you know, they only want to be held a certain way or they don't want to be held at all. And so I've learned over the years just how to do that. And I would say Gary and Roman, at least from my experience, are the type that, you know, they don't want you to just pick them up and hold them. They might want to get on your lap or they might want to, you know, do it their, their way, but they seem to, you know, not necessarily want to be held for a long time. So I, I, you know, I turned him over and held him upside down. I think he posted a photo of it. But, you know, that's. That's one of the positions I learned with my. One of my cats, that it's like he wouldn't let you hold him anyway. Except that if you. If you put him upside down with his tummy up and you held him securely, then he would let you hold him that way. And that's. That's what I was doing with Gary. So, you know.

C (50:57)

You know what I'm saying? I'm realizing that the house, the Scarano's house, I used to think that it was like this one man, you know, like the wizard of Oz by himself, you know, and now is the Addams Family.

B (51:10)

Really.

C (51:10)

I'm thinking of like that show, that TV show with everybody there. Shelley, you are like Morticia, you know, or something. I don't know. All of you guys are different in characters. Queen, you're like Uncle Fester. I don't know. Everybody's somebody. And it was so much fun to see that. And it has, you know, in the house itself is like a crazy house. I mean, it's amazing. I love it. Right, Owen?

E (51:33)

I mean, what do you think the.

G (51:35)

Tennis court is like? Like, it's like a football field. Like, that's how giant it is.

C (51:44)

And the neighbors, we had a name. Oh, yeah, we had a neighbor. I want to reveal this. Somebody asked Owen for an autograph.

E (51:51)

No way, right?

C (51:52)

Yeah, yeah. There was one of the neighbors. I saw him for an autograph and.

B (51:57)

My very first autograph.

C (52:00)

With the cats, too. And. And he's a neighbor that lives close by. So I wanted to ask Shelley, how is that living with neighbors or, you know, that. Well, how was that for Scott with every, you know, neighbors snooping in and stuff? You know, it's like having a house tour every day. How do you deal with that?

E (52:18)

Yeah, you know, the. The community, the neighborhood, they treated him just like family. And he had a text chain with the whole neighborhood. This is Scott, you know, and he would. When it was possible our power was going to go out, he's like, I have backup generators. If this happens, I'm prepared. I have everything for you. Come over. And he in. You know, he had. He extended the invite for them to come over anytime if they ever needed anything. It was great. And, you know, the neighbors didn't take advantage of anything. They were great. Probably the neighbor you're talking about, I don't know, she's. She's baked us. I don't know how many apple pies and chocolate chip cookies the last few Weeks it amazing. And she just. We just kept returning the. The pie plate and she just kept bringing them back. So the whole. I know the whole. The whole neighborhood, we just have a. I mean, he had a great group of neighbors that were definitely willing to help in any way. And. And he was the same. He just, you know, he invited him over and, you know, it was very close to them.

A (53:40)

So he told us about the text thread too. And, you know, like, if something weird was happening or, you know, a car got broken into or whatever it was, and I want to give a shout out. So you guys, you know how Scott loves Halloween and he gives out the full size candy bars. Oh, or Waters. Waters shout out to any trick or treater that went to his door because he has a very steep hill. So they worked hard to get up that driveway to get the candy. So the reward was worth it. It was interesting.

E (54:12)

Savannah was every. Was there every year with him doing that. So. So yeah.

A (54:18)

And we might have taken a few putts on the putting green inside. And that's definitely a wavy little green. And we could see where Scott had like a little thing on the. On the putting green to hold his phone upright. So, you know how he positioned the phone. And so we took a couple of putts and I don't know, like, it was. I keep saying, like, I also felt like I knew every inch of that house because we lived in it with him virtually for so many hours. And it was an amazing experience.

E (54:51)

Yeah. Just a little bit about the house. I think most of you know, we built the house together. He wanted to build this Dilbert house and he wanted to feature certain things. And so we did it together. We didn't hire designers. We didn't, you know, we had a contractor, of course, that led us to, you know, all the places to look for stuff. But he wanted the kids to pick out their tile and, you know, they got to. I think I told most of you at the house, he made sure the kids bedrooms were exactly the same size, exactly the same layout. There was like, you cannot make this an inch bigger for the other kid. So he wanted to be fair and. But they did. They. They got to pick out their tile for their bathroom, what they wanted to look like. They got to pick out their design. I mean, he let us pick out everything. I think there was. So Scott's big thing for the house. There's two things I would say for the house that he were important to him. One was the Christmas tree closet. So he didn't want to have to take The. The. You know, he had an artificial tree, and he didn't want to have to take the. Put the lights back on and put the ornaments back on. He wanted a Christmas tree closet that he could just roll that Christmas tree in. So it had to have a big opening. It had to, you know, it was a double. Double door. You had to make sure that. That. That was going to be able to go in it because he wasn't going to go through the work. Work of doing that every year. So that was one of his things that he had. I mean, of course, a lot of things. But then the other one was the tennis court. He wanted an indoor tennis court. And mind you, we're in a community. We don't have an hoa, but, you know, the neighbors have to approve this, and they're like, this is going to be a big structure. So we had to go back and forth, but he made it happen. But he asked me, like, what do you want? Like, I mean, this is for me. I want the tennis court. I want to do something for you. Like, what do you want? I'm like, I don't. I. I mean, I just want some palm trees around the pool or something. I mean, nothing really, really important to me. And what was that? That was the one thing that the city did not want. Want to approve. No, Scott, he's decided that this is gonna happen. And we. We actually went in and we had to fight it. And he just, you know, we're going on, and we're like, of course, we'll. We'll change the paint color for you. We will do this for you. We will, you know, move the house back, you know, whatever it is they want. All the, you know, neighbors wanted. We'll do this. We'll make sure that the tennis court has it. Does it. It looks like a house from the outside, has no windows, so it's like a fake facade window because they don't want the light coming out from the tennis lights. But when it came to. He was, you know, we were coming in there. He. He just said, but enough's enough. We're having palm trees. Shelly is giving her palm trees. So. So we have palm trees. So he made that happen. I did have a little room right by. I don't know if you guys noticed that. A little spa room, so we can have little girl days to get our nails done or get pedicures. I had a little pedicure spa, along with the washing for the hair. And we would do massages, hang by the pool, and, you know, Quinn can tell you, Missy, you know, we had spa days there. So it was great. So that was what he did for me. So.

B (58:48)

Great. And, and, and the tennis court is pretty incredible. I mean it's like you never suspect it walking up to the house. You'd never suspect it being in the house. Like it just looks like a relatively. I mean it's a large house but not like mansion large. You know, it's not like one of those things that impresses you as like wow, this just goes on and on. But then you go through this one little door and all of a sudden it's like this big cavern opens and you have this full size court. It's just amazing.

E (59:13)

Yeah, was built. It looked. Doesn't look as big from the front, but if you keep going, it just keeps going. And I don't even know if you guys went into the backyard. There's a huge backyard after the tennis court. So it was a double lot and it just kept going.

A (59:31)

So Shelly, your sister, don't tell on her, but she was so fun and funny. She took myself and Marcella and Michael Malice. She's like, you want to go in the master bedroom? We're like, yeah, let's go. So we go in, you know, check it out. Then she's like, but wait, come on. And I'm like, I know it's back here. And so then there's another room in the master and she opens the curtains where there's a big glass window looking out onto the tennis court. And you know, I was like, there it is. I've seen it on YouTube, but here it is. So. And that's what get his Friday night 6:30 massage in there, right?

E (60:19)

Massage. But the idea, like his idea of that was he was hoping that when the tournaments, the tennis tournaments came to San Jose locally that he can invite these tennis pros to come stay and then you know, he could watch their match and from the master. So yeah, that was his. We never did it, we never offered. I think it was a little, still a little too far for them. But in his mind, I mean he actually.

A (60:49)

Do you guys remember when Vivek was in the running, he said, I think he's going to be speaking in San Francisco. I'm going to offer him to come here and play tennis, you know, and whatever. But he, I forget what happened that he didn't or Vivek didn't come or whatever. But yeah, like Scott, you know, just had these like visions and worked around them and just tried to install them and instill them everywhere. And the other. And yes. And your sister also took Marcela and I to the back backyard and, oh, my gosh, she was the bomb. She gave us some fortune cookies that she got from San Francisco. Yeah. I was like, let's go. Love her.

E (61:31)

I love that she did that for you guys.

A (61:34)

We did, too. We appreciated every second of the entire experience.

E (61:39)

That's great.

A (61:40)

We did. Quinn, I have a question. Would you consider coming on with us from time to time?

B (61:49)

Sure. I.

F (61:50)

Happy to accept the invite. As long as I can add value, I'm happy to be here.

A (61:55)

I think you do add value, and I think we would all love that. And you give us, like, another level of closeness to Scott and to Shelley, and you obviously know him very well, and I think that's valuable to all of us. Don't you guys think? So you guys drop an emoji in the chat if you want to see Quinn back with us. I think that would be fun. To everybody that's watching on other platforms, please do consider joining Scott's Locals page. I think it's Scott adams.locals.com, something like that, but I'll put it on Twitter today. So, you guys, everybody's saying yes, Quinn, There's a stream of emojis and yeses. So that's awesome. And don't you guys love that Shelly was with us talking and sharing her stories? So good. Shelly, we love you so much. I. I've just only seen. We love you. Everybody just adores you. And, you know, I know you guys don't want this to end. Does anyone have any questions they want to drop in or do any of us have anything you want to ask? Marcella, Sergio, Owen, do you want to add anything? I could add a lot, but.

C (63:14)

I don't want to get you a lot. If we go over the time, maybe.

B (63:17)

Maybe a random question. Did Scott ever hypnotize you?

F (63:22)

No. And that's a great question, because I did. There were times when I. We talked about it for sure, but I just. Yeah, we just never did it. But we talked about hypnotizing and people had hypnotized and things like that. So there's. There will be some confidential stuff that I will never tell you guys, so you can ask, but I'll do my best. But there's still confidentiality, loyalty to Scott that I won't reveal things. But. But no, to answer your question, no.

B (63:54)

Okay. Yeah, I just wondered because he, you know, he talked often about being a hypnotist, but I didn't know if he ever did actually hypnotize the people that were around him?

F (64:01)

No, but I mean, again, I benefited so much because behind the scenes, as he was building this, I saw the thought process. Like he'd have his whiteboard and like a blog post that he's working on, and you'd see behind the scene as it got developed and then as he got into the podcasting again, whiteboard notes when he was trying to do the movie, the museum used to be. It's been a couple different things we can share later, but sticky notes all on the wall on the, on his thoughts when he was trying to. To get the movie back going. But it was just fun seeing how he planned for the show way back when and seeing how he put the pieces together, practiced on the whiteboard before he would come on and start presenting it. So we, we. I got a little bit of sneak peek to that and one system that I implemented, I'll leave you guys with this is as we got going, you know, he showed me the systems. All that stuff is so daily. I have three things that I focus on. Thank, help and ask. At some level, it doesn't have to be overwhelming, whatever you do, but those kind of components is try and do something in each of those buckets for somebody else or ask something of them. And it's. It was just a system that made a huge difference to me. Just because it put you in gratitude mode and how can I be of value? And then in my work life, whatever, it's. You got to learn how to ask valuable questions or ask for help or things like that. But that was part of Scott talking that through, to build a simple system that you can do daily. So it was. Yeah, I got, I got much more out of the relationship than he did.

C (65:37)

I'm.

E (65:37)

I'm.

F (65:38)

I'm sure of that.

E (65:40)

Can you say those three words again? Okay.

C (65:42)

Oh, I just. I couldn't hear those three words. You said that, that, this.

B (65:47)

Sure.

F (65:47)

Thank, help and ask. That's it. Those kind of do those three buckets a day, but go ahead. I'm sorry, Shelly.

E (65:57)

Yeah, no, I was just gonna say that he would wake up till the end. I don't know if people know this. He would wake up at 4:00am no matter what, to prepare for his show at 6, 7, 4:00 clock when he was sicker than sick, barely could stay awake. I mean, he would be writing his notes, just falling asleep till the end. I. But he. It didn't stop him. I asked him, like, how about, why don't we wake up at you know, 5, 30, maybe sleeping a little bit more.

G (66:34)

Nope.

E (66:35)

4:00 it was. And he would fall asleep. He's like, oh, wake me up if I'm, you know, falling asleep. It's like. He was dedicated to this. He very dedicated. It was really important to him. So.

A (66:53)

Yeah, I mean, Scott always said sleep was a waste of time. So I love that mindset and I would like some sleep personally. But, yes, sleep is a waste of time. He had things to do and he did, and he did more than most and right. Right till his last breath, which was just inspirational and just taught us a whole other level of lessons about life and death and dying. And I hope that. I hope that I can, you know, carry on the way he did when, you know, when one day, you know, God forbid. But we'll be in those situations. I just. I'm so grateful that he always had his mind about him and, you know, that he. He got to do what he loved doing till the very, very end, which is be with his family and work and think and try to solve problems and make the world a better place and ultimately just to be useful. So that was amazing that that happened for him.

C (68:01)

Yeah. He told us that it was going to be a transition month. Right. We're still in January. And the longest month of my life, I think, has been, I don't know, with all of you, all the stuff that is going on behind the scenes to put all this together. And I just want to second what Erica was saying, that we're not nobody, none of us trying to be scat here or anything. We're just trying to respect his wishes and honor his wishes. And I'm so happy that Shelley is, you know, is soldering on and loving him more and more and more in the chat, is embracing you and the community and then. And it becomes this dopamine cycle that we can continue and sustain. So it's been a wonderful week for the show and. And I think that we're just going to keep trying to be as useful as possible. And I'm glad that Quinn joined us today to give us that scat view that we don't have.

G (69:05)

I don't know, Eric, if you want to go over the questions they asked us, I think they were asking about Gary and Roman and where they're going to be at.

E (69:15)

Yeah, I get a question. Yeah, Gary Romans, They're. They're staying with the family. Savannah is introducing. Well, they've. They've been for the last month a little bit more. Introducing. She has two English cream Dogs. So they have been slowly been introducing the dogs to them. So they are taking the dog. They're taking Roman and Gary. So the staying with the family.

A (69:45)

And Gary and Roman are used to Savannah. They know her. They love her. Yeah. It's not like it's not going to be traumatizing for them. They're. They're with people they know.

E (69:54)

Yeah. And she's going to make sure they have their own space so they can hide away from the dogs if they need to. So the dogs can't get to them. They'll have their little door. She's got it all planned out. So they'll have their own space if they want to get away from the dogs. But, you know, if. If for some reason it didn't work out, if they'll be with me and my four other cats.

A (70:16)

Shelly's an animal lover to you guys. Yes. So she has beautiful cats and a dog, or. No, no.

E (70:23)

So I just. I. Yeah. And I rescued. So I live close to Pleasanton in Livermore. It's, you know, maybe five miles, maybe a little bit longer away. And I live on. So I have property. I live on five acres. So I've had two. Well, I've had two strays come up and basically bring me their babies. So from the first time was when I lost my. It was a year after I lost my son. And all of a sudden, we, you know, we would feed this outdoor cat, and it looked like it was getting bigger and bigger. I'm like, are we feeding this cat too much? I think it's, you know, we. We may. We may want to. It was very feral. Would not let us close, but it would go to the bowl if we set it outside. So we're like this. I don't know. And then all of a sudden, we had this tree out our windows. We can kind of look, and we had this tree. All of a sudden I see these little kittens climbing up the tree with the mob, and I'm like, oh, my goodness. So we, you know, captured them all and got them all fixed and released mama back. And then we kept three. So we kept three of them, and my friend took the other two. And then mom still comes to visit her. I mean, she still comes every day. Same time we feed the cats, and she comes back to see her. Her babies, and we feed her. Then not too long ago, we another. We were driving up the road, and it was a black cat. And I'm like, it looked kind of like a skunk. And we're like, is that a Skunk in the road because it looked like I had a really big belly. And I know that's a cat. And the cat followed me all the way up the hill, all the way to the house. Very friendly cat, but super skinny. Oh, I just felt so sorry for the cat. And you can tell, just so pregnant. And brought the cat into the garage because I wasn't sure if it was going to let me touch it. So I brought it to the garage and then ended up, like, very friendly, letting me pet her. And then brought her in, like, kind of. I had just like this little hallway and I put this bin with towels because I'm thinking, I don't know how far along she is. I'll call the vet tomorrow. I'll figure it out. Next thing you know, the next day, she was popping out babies. So we did get them all adopted except for one, and we kept the one.

A (73:12)

So now we have say no to come to you.

E (73:14)

No, I'm like, okay, I gotta look. Look away. So I love that.

A (73:21)

Did you see other questions, Marcella?

G (73:23)

Yeah, it's the cat distribution system finding you.

E (73:28)

You know, the weekly no cats.

G (73:31)

No cats Apply please. They are asking, was there a program for the service and can it be shared with everyone?

A (73:43)

I can share the COVID Shelly, and who the speakers were. Yeah, and I'll leave the other side out.

E (73:48)

Yeah, yeah.

A (73:49)

Okay. I'll post that later, you guys.

E (73:52)

Yeah, there was some information in there, like addresses. We don't want those in there.

A (73:57)

I'll post it later so you can see who all the speakers were.

H (74:02)

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G (74:29)

And they were asking. I'm sorry to ask. You can decline to answer. But they were asking about Jose. Oh, yes, because he became part of the show even though we never saw him in real life. But, you know, like, oh, I have a water leak and is.

A (74:50)

Actually.

E (74:51)

I don't know.

G (74:51)

There was a story that Joshua told us. I'm sure he's okay with me sharing it. Joshua starts with Jo and Josue starts with Jo. Sometimes instead of Josue, he would end up. Scott would end up calling Joshua or texting Joshua about water leaks.

E (75:12)

And Joshua, yes, he was. He was at the. He was at the celebration of life. He just kind of snuck in and didn't really, you know, he. He was there. He didn't come over afterwards to the house, but he was there. And yes, he's still. He's still been doing things for us at the house. And. And yeah, so for.

G (75:36)

For those that don't know, Josue was like the contractor for Scott throughout all that time. If. If something needed to be fixed, he would be involved in fixing it, at least from what Scott would tell us. And so he became like this character for the locals in the man cave. More so because one time he came by, like, we felt like he walked behind Scott and we were like, scott, show him. Show him. He's like, no, no, no. You know, so it's like, became this thing for us to figure out what he looked like, what is he. What was he like?

A (76:11)

You know, you were like, interview Jose.

E (76:15)

Yeah, he was a. He was a part of the house for sure. He was there almost. Almost every day. And I think, honestly, I think he. Scott would just make up things for him to do just so that he could be around and not be alone. I'm just like, oh, I think we need to, I don't know, repaint the doors or, you know, that type of thing, because that's who Scott was. He. He was generous. He, you know, kept him working and, you know, he liked the company, to be honest with you.

G (76:43)

And they.

A (76:44)

I also want to. Oh, go ahead, Marcella.

G (76:46)

This is connecting to Jose. They were asking about the. They know, some of them knew about Scott's bathroom and how it was being. Being changed because of a leak, and they were asking if it got finished. The Scott's bathroom?

E (77:06)

Yes. The master, finally. Yeah, the master. So when we built it, we built it Mediterranean style, which, you know, at the time, you would think that that would have, you know, lasted. That style would have lasted forever. But, you know, here we are now, more modern and everything's more. A little. Has a little cleaner look, a little brighter. So Scott decided to change it up. You know, change the cabinets, paint them blue. Let's not have them look like old cabinets. And redo the showers and redo the. The granite and the tile and the flooring downstairs. So he did a lot to the house just to give it more a brighter, more modern but still Mediterranean look. I mean, when you look from the outside, it's just. It's Mediterranean. It's hard. It's hard to change a Mediterranean house fully into A modern house. But he, he did a really good job at doing that. And in that he did the showers and, you know, fixing the leaks in the showers and the shower heads and all that stuff. So, yeah, it's, it's almost. I would say it's pretty much finished with most of the stuff that we'll probably do to it. And, and unfortunately, I know I don't really want to break the news, but he will be. The state will be selling the house. So unfortunately it's, it's too big of a house for anyone to be honest with you. Any one person. I would say it's a, it's a, it's a big house. So he will be selling it. You know, I'll give details more when the time comes, but it's. It, you know, most likely do it off market and. But it's, it's going to be really hard for I think everybody. The family, you know, we've built. That's all we know. You know, we've. It's going to be really hard.

A (79:10)

But I say everybody just move into it.

E (79:17)

Let's do that. We can keep the museum in there.

G (79:21)

Somebody clip me. And, and so Elon, this clip that we would want Elon Musk to buy Scott's house to keep.

A (79:34)

Elon doesn't even have a house. That's the best part.

E (79:37)

Yeah.

A (79:38)

I wanted to just say to Shout out to Paul Collider, who kept Scott like sane for all these years. He would do our check of which platforms were working and he's like this quiet unsung hero. But honestly, Paul Collider, Shout Out. I don't know if you're listening anymore to us, but never took a day off. And if he did, we didn't know about it. He had someone else doing it. Shout out to everybody. And I also wanted to tell you something. What was it? I forgot, but I know it's getting a little bit later, you guys, but I'm positive that Shelley and Quinn would both come back on together and we could have more questions for them. I think it's really fun to talk about Scott and he's our favorite subject. Right. So we will definitely do it again. Also, Shelly, just reiterating about locals one more time. So the micro lessons are being worked on. They're just being kind of tightened up because they, like Shelley and Scott wanted them to be like, really nice and concise and clippable. So those are being worked on. They'll remain on locals. So definitely come over and join us there. And there will be Some bonus episodes over there, too. Shelly and I were talking about maybe Scott's brother will come on with us on Locals and we'll be able to talk to him and some other ideas that we had and any closing statements from anybody. Oh, and I want to remind you to. Owen is on tomorrow on Spaces. Okay. So Owen and Sergio and SJV will be over there. Am I right? Yes.

B (81:24)

Yeah. We'll. We'll start at the normal time that Scott would have his show. So it's 7am Pacific or 10am Eastern, or you can your time zone.

A (81:32)

And I'm sure you have a million news stories to talk about.

B (81:35)

We do. We always do.

A (81:37)

Awesome. And those go long, you guys. You can get like a news fill like no other. Oh, we have some amazing guests lined up for next week. I'm so excited. So, you know, click in. Sergio, did you want to say something?

C (81:50)

No. Marcella wants to say something, I think.

A (81:52)

Okay. Yeah.

G (81:53)

I just wanted to bring up that this weekend there's more meetups with more people. So Scott Adams, meetup.com you can go there. We're not connected to it, but somebody put that together and it's where you can find other God fans. And they're having quite a few meetups this weekend. And I just wanted to bring that up. I know they have an AT X. It's Scott Adams, meet M E E T.

A (82:26)

Scott Adams, meet. Like I'm meeting somebody, everybody, you know.

G (82:33)

To say the following. I do. I. I have to. To say that, Erica, you've done so much and so many things and, and you are doing a wonderful job. And I just, like, we love you and I'm sure everybody does. And I just want to say thank you for.

A (82:53)

Thank you.

G (82:54)

And being able to, even through the grief, being able to just basically making it look. Because yesterday the CNN lady, the Kim, she was like, have you been a producer before? You know, because you seem like a complete natural at what you do, and that's so sweet.

A (83:14)

Thanks, Marcella. Thank you.

B (83:17)

And I would echo just, you know, if you can go to a meetup, I think they're great. I mean, honestly, I consider what I just did at the service to be one of those, because I got to spend a lot of time with Sergio and Marcela and Erica and a bunch of other people. And it was just great meeting people in person and just getting to know people 100% level.

A (83:36)

And it was really great for the four of us to spend time together. And it didn't feel awkward. It didn't feel weird, you know, it was like we've known each other for so long virtually. That meeting was just as easy. And we all have very different personalities, and they all work so well together. And then she, Shelly, is just like the easiest person to just immediately love. So it was just very cohesive and fun, and everybody that loves Scott is all right with me. So, yeah.

E (84:11)

Thank you, Erica. Thank you, all of you guys. So, Erica, you are doing a great job. I appreciate. I so appreciate you just leading us to this because you're. You are a natural. You're.

A (84:27)

Oh, thank you. That's so sweet. Thanks, you guys. Quinn, thank you so, so much for coming on. When Shelly and I were talking about, like, who should come on? And I was like, can Quinn come on? And she said, oh, my gosh, I think he'd love it. So I'm so happy that you did and that we all are witnesses that you've agreed to come back on with us.

F (84:47)

Well, and. And thank you. You guys have been great. Keep going, Keep going. I will throw plan A. Seed is with Jay or however you do, if they can just make a compilation of Scott making himself laugh and just, yes, go with that. You can throw in some rants. I loved when he kind of got on one too, when he was get fired up a little bit, but his laugh was great. It was hard to make him laugh, as hard as he could make himself laugh. But it's just a big part of his personality. I know his brother mentioned that in the. In the video at the memorial. If you haven't heard it, Dave reflected on his laugh too. But have Jay work on that if you can.

A (85:27)

That's just 100%, because there's nothing better than Scott either in a fit of laughter or rage. Like we like. We love both of those dopamine hits. And Amazing Shelly. Did you know that there was another Shelly that. Did you ever hear that there was a Shelly that was like a troll of his? So the name Shelly was like a trigger for us. So whenever there was a troll or someone acting up, there was this lunatic Shelly who was like a total troll for him. So any troll, we'd be like, Shelly. And we'd all be like, it's Shelly. And we would laugh so hard. Obviously it wasn't you. It was another Shelly.

E (86:11)

That's funny.

A (86:12)

So. All right, you guys, thank you so much. And we'll all be logging in tomorrow to see Owen on Spaces with Sergio and sjv. We'll be back on Monday. We have a very special guest lined up for Monday, so make sure you're here. Bring your mugs and be useful this weekend and always. And you guys, let's have a final call closing stuff.

C (86:36)

Yeah, I just want to say I want to praise you a little more. Okay.

A (86:40)

Oh, no.

C (86:40)

There's a lot of things that happen behind the scenes that, that Erica is keeping everything together that all you guys have no idea. You just wanted to say. Okay, so there's a lot of stuff that I don't know if anybody has the skills to make it happen. What she's. What you're making happen over the next few weeks and months. So I just wanted to say that thank you.

A (87:00)

Thank you, you guys so much. I really love you guys a lot, lot. Thank you. All right, so a final closing sip to our beloved Scott. You guys go out there, be useful. We love you. And to Scott.

B (87:12)

Scott.

A (87:17)

Bye, guys.