Paying Tribute to Great American and "Dilbert" Creator, Scott Adams

[00:00:00] Today we mourn the loss of another great [00:00:02] American and that is Scott Adams. Uh I [00:00:05] just uh saw that JD Vance actually just [00:00:08] tweeted something uh moments before we [00:00:10] came on the air. Scott Adams was a true [00:00:12] American original and a great ally to [00:00:14] the president of the United States and [00:00:15] the entire administration. My prayers go [00:00:17] to Scott and all of you who loved him. [00:00:19] We lost one of the good ones, but we'll [00:00:21] never forget him. And yeah, it's a lot [00:00:24] of a lot of newspaper comic artists are [00:00:26] not going to get a tribute like that, I [00:00:28] don't think. Do you remember when [00:00:30] Charles Schultz died? [00:00:31] >> I do. Uh but but just vaguely. Yeah. [00:00:35] >> Yeah. That was the Peanuts guy. Of [00:00:36] course, he was a great American icon, [00:00:37] but that's the only one I can really [00:00:39] think of that's [00:00:39] >> Yeah. I mean, so he Scott Adams, of [00:00:42] course, created Dilbert in 1989. [00:00:45] And he it was incredible because, [00:00:50] you know, obviously we were too young to [00:00:51] kind of understand, [00:00:53] you know, I was too young. Blake wasn't [00:00:55] even born yet. uh you know was too young [00:00:57] to understand the this rise of corporate [00:01:00] culture, workplace cubicle culture and [00:01:02] he gave voice through this comic to the [00:01:05] quiet frustrations of working men and [00:01:07] women that were working their way up [00:01:08] middle but also it was it was deeply [00:01:11] funny too. [00:01:11] >> It was deeply funny. It it it was the [00:01:14] hapless engineer protagonist as it was [00:01:16] described and a bunch of dysfunctional [00:01:18] colleagues and you know it was a [00:01:20] cultural phenomenon. It became a [00:01:22] cultural phenomenon that people would [00:01:23] talk about at the workplace or the at [00:01:25] the water cooler or when they're getting [00:01:27] coffee at work, you know, and that's why [00:01:29] he ultimately created coffee with Scott [00:01:32] Adams. It was originally called Real [00:01:33] Coffee with Scott Adams and it became a [00:01:35] phenomenon that many people tuned into [00:01:37] daily and to just get a dose of his, you [00:01:41] know, his contrarian thinking. He had a [00:01:43] unique blend of insight, humor, wit, um, [00:01:47] and an optimism. He was an optimist. He [00:01:49] genuinely was. And he was one of the [00:01:51] first people to sort of take President [00:01:54] Trump seriously. One of the first [00:01:56] mainstream people to take President [00:01:58] Trump seriously. And he paid politically [00:02:00] for that. He paid in his career uh for [00:02:02] that as well. A lot of papers around the [00:02:04] country ended up removing Scott Adams uh [00:02:07] the Dilbert cartoon from their papers. [00:02:10] >> Yeah. And they, you know, and here's [00:02:11] what they'll do, by the way. This is [00:02:12] what they're going to do is the same [00:02:14] thing that they did with Charlie is [00:02:16] they're going to cherrypick a few things [00:02:18] that Scott maybe said or take it out of [00:02:20] context. They're going to like remove [00:02:22] all the other context and say that Scott [00:02:25] Adams was this bad person or whatever. [00:02:27] No, Scott Adams was a was a great [00:02:29] >> What he was was he was a man in the [00:02:30] arena just like Charlie where oh if you [00:02:32] go out there and say things oh there's a [00:02:34] risk someone might not like what you say [00:02:35] you might be inarticulate at some point. [00:02:36] It's just disgusting. [00:02:38] >> I want us to throw up this is uh one of [00:02:40] my favorites. Let's put up uh 249. Uh [00:02:43] this is just you didn't have comics like [00:02:45] this before. Or not comics, cartoons [00:02:48] like this. My So it's the pointy-haired [00:02:49] boss talking to Dilbert. My boss says we [00:02:52] need some Unic programmers. [00:02:54] I think he means Unix, not Unix. Uh I [00:02:57] already and I already know Unix. If the [00:03:00] company nurse drops by, tell her I said [00:03:02] never mind. the company nurse. [00:03:04] >> I don't think I don't think you would [00:03:05] have see you would not have seen a comic [00:03:07] strip like I keep saying yeah a comic [00:03:09] strip like that in uh [00:03:10] >> it was it was cathartic it was it was [00:03:13] syndicated worldwide by the way that's [00:03:16] what's amazing about it syndicated [00:03:17] worldwide so it was a phenomenon of the [00:03:20] workplace that emerged in the 80s and [00:03:22] 90s probably in the 70s [00:03:23] >> and you what people also probably don't [00:03:26] know about Scott is he authored a bunch [00:03:28] of bestselling books on persuasion [00:03:29] persuasion systems thinking personal [00:03:31] success [00:03:33] Um, just a really great guy. I actually [00:03:36] talked to Scott on the phone. I never [00:03:37] met him in person. Uh, I talked to him [00:03:39] on the phone a couple times. I was on [00:03:41] the phone with Scott and Charlie, [00:03:43] believe it or not. Uh, we were talking [00:03:45] about maybe getting him on the show, how [00:03:46] we could work together. Nothing ended up [00:03:48] coming of those conversations, but um, [00:03:51] you know, Scott did honor Charlie when [00:03:55] uh, Charlie was killed. [00:03:56] >> And we have that clip. [00:03:57] >> He did. We have that clip. Uh let's make [00:03:59] sure we have the right one here because [00:04:01] there were a few. Uh yeah, so this was [00:04:03] he was on uh Tucker's program shortly [00:04:05] after and he was commenting on it. So [00:04:08] this is I can't imagine Adams ever [00:04:09] thought he would outlive Charlie, but [00:04:11] this is what he had to say. Clip 239. [00:04:15] >> When uh Charlie Kirk died, you could [00:04:18] almost feel this massive energy being [00:04:22] released. you know, he he sort of [00:04:24] controlled it, but when it was released, [00:04:27] you know, his his mortal coil uh was no [00:04:30] more. Uh I feel like that energy just [00:04:33] went into people. Um and suddenly tens [00:04:37] of millions of people simultaneously [00:04:40] said, "What can I do? What can I do [00:04:43] right now?" And that's different. People [00:04:46] don't say, "I'm going to stop [00:04:48] everything. Tell me what to do. I I'm [00:04:50] going to go to church." a lot of people [00:04:52] did. Uh, I'm going to say stuff on [00:04:54] social media. I'm going to hunt down the [00:04:56] people who said bad things and cancel [00:04:59] them, but I'm going to do something. You [00:05:01] know, we're we're we're going to figure [00:05:02] out how to start another chapter of, you [00:05:05] know, TPUSA. [00:05:07] And, uh, all of that's happening and it [00:05:10] doesn't seem to be slowing down, you [00:05:13] know, the vigils, etc. If anything, the [00:05:15] energy, [00:05:17] it might be growing. Uh, and I've never [00:05:19] seen anything like it in my life. 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[00:06:12] And what's most important I think as [00:06:14] well is that Scott was wrestling with [00:06:16] his own mortality towards the end. You [00:06:18] know CS Lewis would talk about how a [00:06:21] soldier in a foxhole actually the the [00:06:23] you know because he was reflecting on [00:06:25] World War I. He was a veteran of World [00:06:26] War I and he was he was doing a lot of [00:06:28] his writings and his thinking in World [00:06:30] War II. And he said that it's can be a [00:06:32] blessing to be faced with your own [00:06:34] mortality and to understand that you as [00:06:37] a soldier you might die and to confront [00:06:39] the almighty and to to make peace. And [00:06:42] Scott was sort of that soldier on a [00:06:44] field in a cultural sense, in a media [00:06:46] sense. And he was staring down the [00:06:48] sickness. Um he had uh metastatic [00:06:51] prostate cancer. [00:06:51] >> Prostate cancer that spread to his [00:06:53] bones. [00:06:53] >> Yeah. And so he was dealing with the [00:06:55] fact that he knew he was uh probably [00:06:56] going to die. He he said it, "I'm going [00:06:58] to die. [00:06:59] >> We're all going to die." [00:07:00] >> Yes. but imminently, right? And so, uh, [00:07:02] and that could be a real blessing. And [00:07:04] so, Scott was wrestling with his own [00:07:05] mortality and was never a believer, was [00:07:08] never a a Christian. He had great [00:07:09] respect for Christians, but he was not [00:07:11] himself. And so, we have two clips where [00:07:13] he himself was describing this. Uh, 237. [00:07:17] >> My Christian friends and Christian [00:07:20] followers say to me, "Scott, you still [00:07:22] have time. You should convert to [00:07:24] Christianity." [00:07:26] And I usually [00:07:28] just let that sit because that's not an [00:07:31] argument I want to have. Um I'm I've not [00:07:34] been a believer. And uh but I also have [00:07:38] respect for any Christian who goes out [00:07:41] of their way to try to convert me [00:07:43] because how would I believe you believe [00:07:46] your own religion if you're not trying [00:07:48] to convert me? So, I have great respect [00:07:52] for people who care enough that they [00:07:55] want me to convert [00:07:57] uh and then go out of their way to try [00:07:59] to convince me. So, you're going to hear [00:08:02] for the first time today that it is my [00:08:05] plan to convert. [00:08:08] >> And that's it's a very Scott Adams way [00:08:10] to do it. [00:08:11] >> It's such an I I'm a I'm a tech autist [00:08:13] kind of guy. [00:08:13] >> Exactly. It's it's like an engineer uh [00:08:16] you know doing it uh in only the way he [00:08:19] can. And and and I my my word to [00:08:21] everybody that's like you know that [00:08:23] might s think that you know this isn't [00:08:25] that's not an authentic way to convert. [00:08:28] I would just say everybody's different. [00:08:30] God makes us in mysterious ways.