Remembering Scott Adams

Yes, this is the Andra Segovia Show, welcome everyone to the program. It's not an episode I intended on doing today, but I figured why not fire up the camera and remember this day. It was a moment that many fans were waiting for, unfortunately, it came sooner rather than later. For those that have been watching and following, Scott Adams has passed away from a long battle with cancer, prostate cancer if I'm not mistaken, at the age of 68, and he leaves behind a big legacy, especially a big impact to those of us in the business world. And for those of you that are new to my program, you'll notice that this, especially those of you on Rumble, because streaming out from Rumble first, thank you to those of you joining me on Locals, Ganjin World, and Play TV. YouTube is not, it's not part of the stream because of some of the reasons that other people in the big media want to remind Scott, everybody that they should remember Scott Adams for. I will address it, but that's not the beginning of this thing. I wanted to start off first by reading Scott's final message, which I'm queuing up here. But for those of you that are new around here, I'm Andres Segovia, I am from the business world, I work in real estate construction and property management, and what I do for a hobby is what you see here. I deal with current events, talk real estate, and every now and then have conversations with people on issues that are along those lines or about anything that interests me. And some of them are current events, politically charged, or other stuff. So if you're new around here, you're welcome to take a peek at recent episodes of mine, particularly the interviews that people enjoy, and you'll see a little bit of everything that I have to offer. But someone that's been, that's had a big impact in my business life and my management life, because I am a general manager, has been Scott Adams. So I will reminisce on that after I share this final message. Some of you have already heard it, if you already tuned into the news and other things, but I figured I'd read it for myself here for the stream. And welcome to those of you joining in on the chat over there on Play TV as well. So if you're watching live on the chat, if you're on Rumble and such, you're welcome to be chiming in, and Play TV, I'll be able to see your chat as well. Not through Rumble Studio, but I can see those of you tuning in over there. So let me pull this up. If you haven't heard his words, I'll read both pages. The first time I heard it really hit me, because as someone of the Christian faith, a lot of us were wondering if he'll finally address this to what he did. So let me pull this up. All right. So you won't be able to see it, because it's so small. Let me change the view into a different setting here. It's just going to mess up my background, so let me switch to this. Well, I guess a little bit better. But I'm doing the reading, so here we go. A final message from Scott Adams. If you're reading this, things did not go well for me. I have a few things to say before I go. My body fell before my brain. I am of sound mind as I write this. January 1st, 2026. If you wonder about any of my choices for my estate or anything else, please know that I am free of any coercion or inappropriate influence of any sort. I promise. Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go. I'm not a believer, but I have to admit the risk-reward calculation for doing so looks attractive, so here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and I look forward to spending an eternity with him. The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven. I won't need any more convincing than that, and I hope I am still qualified for entry. Well, as a Christian myself, I can tell you if it came from the heart, Scott, then I look forward to meeting you there too someday. With your permission, I'd like to explain something about my life. For the first part of my life, I was focused on making myself a worthy husband and parent and as a way to find meaning. That worked, but marriages don't always last forever, and mine eventually ended in a highly amicable way. I'm grateful for those years and for the people I came to call my family. Once the marriage unwound, I needed a new focus, a new meaning, and so I donated myself to the world, literally speaking the words out loud in my otherwise silent home. From that point on, I looked for ways I could add the most to people's lives one way or another. That marked the start of my evolution from Dilbert cartoonist to an author of what I hoped would be useful books. By then, I believe I had amassed enough life lessons that I could start passing them on. I continued making Dilbert comics, of course. As luck would have it, I'm a good writer. My first book in the useful genre was How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. That book turned out to be a huge success, often imitated and influencing a wide variety of people. I still hear every day how much that book changed lives. My plan to be useful was working. I followed up with the book Win Bigly. That trained an army of citizens how to be more persuasive, which they correctly saw as a minor superpower. I know that book changed lives because I hear it often. You'll probably never know the impact the book had on the world, but I know, and it pleases me while giving me a sense of meaning that is impossible to describe. My next book, Loser Think, tried to teach people how to think better, especially if they were displaying their thinking on social media. That one didn't put much of a dent in the universe, but I tried. Finally, my book Reframe Your Brain taught readers how to program their own thoughts to make their personal and professional lives better. I was surprised and delighted at how much positive impact that book is having. I also started podcasting a live show called Coffee with Scott Adams dedicated to helping people think about the world and their lives in a more productive way. I didn't plan it this way, but it ended up helping lots of lonely people find a community that made them feel less lonely. Again, that had great meaning for me. I had an amazing life. I gave it everything I had. If you got any benefits from my work, I'm asking you to pay it forward as best you can. That is the legacy I want. Be useful, and please know I love you all to the end, Scott Adams. I already shed my tears earlier today, so I'm going to try to keep it composed, especially since I don't have long to stream. I have another engagement coming up at the top of the hour, but I do thank you for those of you that are joining in. Again, Ganji World locals, PlayTV, obviously here streaming from Rumble, and if you're joining me over from YouTube, I appreciate you making the effort to leave YouTube to join me over here. As Scott mentioned on his final words, locals was a place where I saw that community really be active, and I think it was less than a week ago, maybe even just a handful of days, I saw him just posting the link to Rumble Studio to let just anyone try to join the livestream so you can speak with folks, and I thought that was absolutely awesome for him to try. I think it was Friday where he tried to experiment that, just previous Friday. I tried to get in, and as someone that does use Rumble Studio, there's only a max amount of guests that can join, so a lot of us unfortunately couldn't get in and try as we may. I think it's maybe like nine to ten guests max. It's not like a Zoom call where you can just get a bunch of people in, or a webinar you get a bunch of people in, so unfortunately it didn't work out that way, but hey, he persisted. He kept trying, and then I saw that he was going to go live this morning, and well, he didn't make that live. So I just thought I'd take a moment to remember Scott Adams, mostly his impact on my life through Tilbert and how it shaped my management techniques, because that, along with office space, poking fun at management, that's usually the butt of the jokes. When management's needed and nowhere to be found, things like that. And before I get any further, somebody that followed me on socials might have seen me sharing a clip. It's about a two-minute clip from a 90s sitcom called News Radio. That show is pure comedy gold, and you never heard of it. It stars Phil Hartman, Dave Foley, Andy Dick. He's in that scene. Joe Rogan, when he had hair, some people were responding to the clip where they're like, that's a jump scare for me. Joe Rogan has hair. You know, it's like, yeah, he had hair. After that, he went to Fear Factor. Amora Tierney, Vicky Lewis, Stephen Root. It's a phenomenal cast, and everyone's just so hilarious. Candy Alexander, I've got to give a shout out to her, too, of course. It's a great show, and Joe Rogan, every now and then, does speak about the show when people bring it up, because it was just a phenomenal show. In season three, episode two, titled Review, I just remember binge watching that show, and there was this particular person that was standing in line at the coffee setup, and if you haven't seen the clip, I definitely recommend you check it out on my socials, and it's Scott Adams, because the conversation that started on that line was one of the characters discovering Dilbert, and I kid you not, the character is Matthew, and his reaction to discovering Dilbert was pretty close to how I reacted when I discovered Dilbert so many years ago. I think it was at least 20 years ago. When I saw that, I was like, I don't know where this came from, but I love it, it's relatable, it's hilarious, and that's the driving plot of the episode, where a character is discovering something like, this is big, and he's like, yeah, we all know that, but he's like, no, no, no, you don't understand how big this thing is, and it just goes back and forth, and Dilbert makes an appearance, but Scott Adams does appear in that as a cameo at the beginning, and I want to recall. I don't know if it was Scott Adams himself, or one of the producers talking about Scott Adams' cameo appearance, so I have to go back and check the audio commentary for this one on the DVDs, because I remember them having to shoot that scene over and over and over again, because there's so many people on it, and they just have to keep rehearsing these lines, but that Scott Adams was just so impressed at how these guys had to just go through the lines all over again, like it was the first time doing it, and if you watch really close, Scott's trying not to break character and ruin the scene, because they shot it a few times, so that's what I remember from that. I don't remember if it was Scott himself, so obviously he would have remembered. I tried to get his attention before the end, to remind him of that clip, so I was sharing it on the locals' community, so some of you that are joining from Rumble are probably joining me from the Scott Adams, Coffee with Scott Adams community, so if you are, thank you so very much, shout out to all of you. I haven't posted very much, I try to be very respectful, but hopefully you've enjoyed the posts that I have made, and one of them was that clip. You all were the first to see it before I shared it publicly across the socials, but anyway, I just thought that was a great memory to share, and I know somehow I heard Scott talk about it, or someone was talking of Scott about it, just reminiscing on that moment. But yeah, discovering Dilbert and such, let me just tell you this much, I enjoyed laughing all the way through any comic strip of Dilbert and making fun of the pointy-haired boss, until one day I realized that my position was the pointy-haired boss, and like, wait, I'm the guy he's poking fun at. It's like, I don't want to be this pointy-haired boss. Maybe a mix of Catbert and Dogbert. You know, Catbert is the evil HR director, and Dogbert is always conniving, he always reminded me, or at least, pinking the brain, brain reminded me a lot of Dogbert, except that that was a rat. And so the way that Dogbert would run things, like, you know what, I want to be a mix of the aggressiveness of Dogbert, but I want to use Catbert as my sarcasm, but I want to be able to be a friend to Dilbert, like, my underlings, if you will. So I guess that was a way for me to say, like, I try to be relatable as management, and most of the people that I ran in the small business are people that I knew. So I grew up in the company, and eventually when I reached out, it's like, well, nepotism, because the father owns the company, and things like that. I cannot stop people from thinking the way they're going to think, but that doesn't mean I didn't put in the work. But anyway, the point is that I thought that I was doing a good job in management until I overheard some people talk about me. I'm like, well, that's a whole other picture than the one they were presenting to me. So they would smile through their teeth at me, but it wasn't actually the case. Like, well, I guess it just comes with the territory. You have some authority, someone's going to hate you for it. That's just the way it was. Let me just put it this way. I tried to be that, and I like to think that I succeeded. Otherwise, people wouldn't be here for so long, and just feel like family. There's a lot of tension that happens in small businesses, because either you work with family, or you don't work with family, but there's a family environment, so to speak. I know that early on in my marriage, when I married my wife, she did work with me for several months, and it was going to destroy our marriage. This is just not going to work. We have to separate the husband and the wife from the manager and the secretary or whatever. So eventually, she ended up working at somewhere else, and now this matured into our marriage, at least 15 years now. Now for the past year, she's been working with me, and we couldn't be better partners in what we do. So those are adjustments that were needed and such. Anyway, I got to give credit to Scott Adams' creation for always making me be mindful of such things, because yeah, I can laugh at the joke, but then realize it's coming at my expense. So that's the thing that Scott Adams' legacy leaves within me, and I'm sharing this with my kids. They've been reading Dilbert comic strips, because they saw I have the books of collections before. I've had those things for years, since after high school and early college. So they've already seen some of these comic things, and I think the first one I bought was, when did ignorance become a point of view? Oh my goodness, all these years later, just that phraseology? I just look at the discourse in the political sphere, I'm like, man, seriously, when did ignorance become a point of view? In the business world, it was one thing, but in politics, where you're dictating the livelihoods of people, it's like, oh my goodness. We can't have discourse because of it, which is going to lead me to touch on some of the controversial parts for why Scott Adams was canceled, but not just yet. There was a collection of this book. I heard it was big. I didn't know how big the book was, but it didn't matter. You know what, let me see this compilation of things, and I did hear about this, it's called Dilbert 2.0, and I found it, and I'm like, oh, I like it, and I think I'm overdue to get one of these. So I ordered it, because I have a few of the Dilbert books, but I didn't see this one, so I ended up buying it, and it was supposed to, I think I ordered it last week, it was supposed to arrive sometime next week. I got a tracking information saying somewhere between January 21st and 22nd it was going to arrive, so imagine my surprise that this thing arrived around noon today after his passing, and I'm like, no way. I got a stream, and I have to have a place for him here, at least on this stream, so that's the book. I think it's massive, it barely fits there, but it's really big and heavy, and it's just, well, I'm going to remember this day. I'm going to remember this day as the day that I found out that Scott made Jesus Christ his Lord and Savior, that even towards the end he was trying to be with his fans and his community, and his legacy, if this is what that is, it's not just this, of course, but it's a major part of how most of us came to know him, and his fame, well, it arrived, so there it is. So it's with that that I'd say, rest in peace, Scott Adams, and I agree with you, to pass it forward, we should, and it doesn't end there. There's many people that are going to be discovering your work, despite the attempts on the left to try to cancel you, because that's what they try to do, try to do to anybody that disagrees, and this is, now let me segue to address something for why, I have it like seeing the discourse that happens, People Magazine deleted their post, I think Jack Pasovic shared it, and for those of you that know, I'm not a big fan of Jack Pasovic, but I did see that, why did People Magazine delete this, I think what they took down initially was one just being neutral about Scott Adams passing, and then they put a different one up to make sure they say why he's controversial, and that's what New York Times and others were putting up, because that's how the legacy media, and anyone that didn't like him, want him to be remembered as, because he said something on his podcast almost two years ago, or three, what is it, two and a half years ago, 2023, something like that, and what was so controversial, I'm not even, I don't have the clip of the quote and the thing, I just know that they were taking it to the, oh, that's, it's not white lives matter, but it's okay to be white, and there was a poll, a Rasmussen poll that was asked of black Americans about this, and about 53% of them, if I'm not mistaken, had said that they have no problem with that, that phrase, it's okay to be white, meaning that maybe 47% of them, at most, do have a problem with that, and because Scott called it out in his way, that's what got him cancelled, so it's that moment in his life, towards the very telling of his life, that these media conglomerates are trying to have other people remembered for, remember him for, because he was cancelled for that, his books were cancelled, they were removed, no wonder some of these books are, they're more expensive than they should be, but they're there for the collectors, pretty much, or the scalpers, in some cases, and they're going to take advantage of that, in the case of me, no, I'm not partying with any of my books, but the thing is, that's what the media did, to try to get him cancelled, his Dilbert comic strip was cancelled from all these, syndication entirely, his publisher dropped him, so a lot of these things happened, his last calendar, and I purchased it, I thought it was an accident, because yeah, it's been in the USA, and all this and that, but when I saw the picture, and I got it, it was this little thing, about this big, so I'm like, is this right? I thought it was supposed to be like a wall calendar, something bigger, so I was about to return it, then, because it was only purchasable through Amazon, I'm like, I'm going to return it, I'm not happy with how small this thing is, and then as I go to look to the listing, because maybe I misread it, I go to the listing, and Amazon says currently unavailable, for those of you that know shopping on Amazon, if it's out of stock, it's going to say out of stock, when it's currently unavailable, that means it's probably sold out, that's it, now I'm like, then I'm not returning this thing, I'm keeping it, and I assume that's what it was, that was the last of it, because I just couldn't find a wall calendar for Dilbert, and after all this, of course it makes sense, so how I feel, like should I be, should I have been offended, that Scott was offended by the results of that poll, and I'm not, I just don't understand how we can hold one race of people to a different standard from others, if our, supposedly, we're equal to one another, I don't understand how it's okay to be white as a problem, but black supremacy is okay, to celebrate me as a Hispanic is okay, I get to get to the front of the line, whether I deserve it or not, with my grades into admission schools, we can't talk about the Asians, though, because they'll get to the front of the line, but we got to push them back, and they're marginalized by the left, but the thing is that it's an unfair characterization, and I felt I needed to address that, because I just reject that, because of course the left just wants to cancel it, and well, they won't stop, the left's only consistency is in their inconsistency, and it couldn't be a more hateful people masquerading as the most tolerant, so I just thought I'd throw that out there in defense of Scott's legacy, because my kids will not remember him for that, they'll remember him for these hilarious works that he put together for those of us in the office world, the first on the book cover, it's Dilbert arriving to Cubeville, and I guess I gotta share this, let me see if I can find it, I don't know if it's gonna look like that on on x, because the Babylon Bee posts a little differently on their Instagram, but if I could pull it up here, let's see, here we have it, Rose Garden, it's gonna look a little different, but it'll still be worthwhile, so let me share this with you as I'm closing this out, because like I said, I have a different engagement to get to, and for those of you that tuned in, Rumble, Ganji World, Play TV, Locals, I do appreciate you all, I know Locals, we're running up on time, we're about two more minutes for you guys before that time's up, but let me pull this up here, so this is the Babylon Bee post, Saint Peter shows Scott Adams to his glorious heavenly cubicle, oh there's no doubt he would have loved that, now I hit like on Instagram, but I didn't see it here on x, so I'm gonna hit like on that, let me see some comments, no pointy hair bosses, oh given that he hated corporate cubicles, Scott would be the first to laugh heartily at this one, well done guys, well done, yeah, that's anything else here, more like, ah screw you, bro really went there with the heavenly cubicle, so I just thought I'd share that with you all, for those of you that tuned in, thank you so very much, so again for those of you that tuned at the very beginning and saw a clip from a TV show, that TV show was called News Radio, that episode was from season three, episode two called Review, that's where Scott Adams makes a cameo at the beginning before the title role, and the entire episode has a running theme of Dilbert, so I think you'll all appreciate that, have a hearty laugh, I put that clip up as many video platforms today, but the first ones to see it were the Locals Community, Scott Adams, so shout out to them over at the Locals Community, and I believe they're gonna still keep posting over there too, so I'm glad to be there, I'm glad to support the community, and yeah, so rest in, rest in peace Scott Adams, to everyone, thank you so much for joining me on this impromptu stream, remembering a legend in business management, seriously, really, really shaped my management skills, and through all that humor, anyway, that's where I'll leave it, check out Scott Adams stuff, wherever you might be able to find it, because it's hard to find, but when you do, make sure you, you pick it up and keep it, that's it, thank you so much, I'll see you in the next one.