This one hurts a lot. On Tuesday, it was announced that cartoonist, media analyst, hypnotist, writer, deep thinker, and humorist Scott Adams had succumbed to the cancer he revealed to the public last May. I never met Scott, but he felt like a personal friend. I listened to his podcast (Real Coffee with Scott Adams) every day - and I mean every day; Scott showed up seven days a week and on holidays.
His wry take on the news was incisive, insightful, and surprising. And despite the fact that the news is too frequently awful, he maintained a sense of humor about it all. Scott's podcast was the only thing Kathy and I could listen to when she was in hospice for two nightmarish weeks. Following her loss, Scott's podcast was frequently the only human voice I'd hear in a day. Despite not sugarcoating the news, he was able to maintain hope and optimism and share it with his loyal listeners.
He did the same as he dealt with his cancer, almost never missing a daily podcast. On Monday, his last day on Earth, he was still doing the podcast although he knew, and we knew, that the end was very near. I even grabbed a screenshot of Scott smiling as the podcast wrapped up, just in case it was my last chance to do so. And sadly, it was.
Scott Adams was famously canceled for his "racist remarks," a lie that sadly is being repeated in most of the mainstream media stories about his passing. Scott was as anti-racism as a person could be, but not in the manner that the woke media demanded. And to the confoundment of that media, Adams saw his cancelation as a new opportunity for unfettered creative expression. His daily cartoon strips "Dilbert Reborn" and "Robots Read the News" went way beyond anything he was allowed to get away with in the newspapers.
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| The simultaneous sip - the dopamine hit of the day that made everything better |
Behind the scenes, Scott shared and popularized his ideas with America's movers and shakers, not the least of whom was Donald Trump. Scott helped bring down DEI and floated the idea of treating drug cartels like the terrorist organizations they are. His influence extended far beyond what most people knew about.
Scott Adams helped show us how to maximize our lives (I recommend his book "Reframe Your Brain") and in his final days showed us how to face mortality without fear. He was, and is, a hero of mine and the world is going to be more quiet and much more stupid without him.
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Thank you.
a perfect post for a sad day.. He was one of a kind. May he rest in peace.
Scott's take on drug cartels may have had something to do with the fentanyl OD of his stepson in 2017, according to what I read.
Rest in peace!😢👍🏼
So sad that the good are dying and the bad are still around. RIP Scott.
Ditto!
His Dilbert interactions with the carpenter guy with the hammer on his belt helped shape and frame my small construction company.
Listening to his daily podcast was SOP for my walks. What now? :(
Well said. A great loss. Thank you.
I Check DAILY but seldom comment...
I Miss you MUCH, Stilt - I Hope you May Recover enough SOON to be able to Post MORE often to Help us ALL... 😊😊😊😊
RIP, Scott! From a lifelong (it seemed like it, even if it wasn’t my whole life) fan and admirer.
Although they were very different, this loss stings like when Rush passed......
Thank you, Stilton. Sad for sure. Your words are comforting. I too spent every morning having Coffee With Scott Adams in Locals, and his gift of 'being useful' was indeed a blessing during my darkest times the past 5 years, and during the previous 5-6 years on yootoob. I am grateful for you, very much, Stilton.
RIP to a friend,
A huge & painful loss. Brilliant, witty, creative & very brave. When he said he loved us all, we believe him. Side fact: he was born & raised in the NY Catskills. When my folks bought some land there for a cabin in the early 70's, his mom was the realtor.
I enjoyed Dilbert as many did, such insight into a Bizarro World...but reading his statement about the Black Community seems like he had seriously deep insight there as well...but one many didn't find very palatable. I agree America doesn't have a Race Problem, it has a problem Race.The Irony of Islam making such a large a large inroad among American Blacks...take something profoundly estranged from the American mainstream and add radical Islam to that...and we have Candace, Louis Farrakhan, Ye, and a host of antiAmericans and just about everything being reviled having to do with White people...and it was a slight annoyance being told that, in spite my being noninvested in any racist thought per se, I was in fact an automatic racist (being "White"). Scott, I hardly knew ya...I am one of many feeling a loss. R.I.P.
Huge loss of a major daily contribution to what remains of the sane subset of the population. I've listened to him daily since the Periscope days and learned a lot...
BTW, it is a most wonderful composition of the simultaneous sip that you created. If you post it on https://x.com/StiltonJ, it should go viral...
My eyes look like a bloated dead fish on a dock this morning. I cried so much yesterday, I got dehydrated. When I learned he was getting ready to do the show and then passed, the dam really broke then. I can't add any more than Stilton so eloquently set forth but I know it will take a while before I get over him as I will be reminded every morning at 9 AM.
Are his podcasts archived anywhere?
I hadn't heard of his cancer diagnosis or death until your notice came through today. That truly saddens me as a rational voice crying in the wilderness is unlimited nowadays. Thanks for letting us know, I will miss him and his sense of humor too.
He did not go into The Dark Night quietly - he left a large Legacy on his way out!
See ya soon, Scott, your work was wonderful, insightful, funnily serious, and your podcast was a welcome breath of sanity in an insane world.
We've lost a lot of Giants lately....
Thank you Stilt, for a kind tribute to a great man.
Good one, @F. Hubert!
I was the "pointy haired boss back in my management days. My office was visited by all the easily identifiable " berts" and other cartoon characters daily. Scott provided endless amusement and we all suspected he had a spy amongst us. In Scott's "racist" defense, few know that Abraham Lincoln was a champion of freedom but did not believe the white and black races could coexist and considered the removal of blacks back to the African continent as the best solution for the health of the country. As Annie Savoy said "you can look it up.".
A small bit of added trivia that many people are not aware of; when Abraham Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation, it was according to copies of letters he wrote which I read in a number of different books, it was because the Civil War was depleting bodies to fill the ranks of the Union Army and Lincoln believed that the Negros would be so grateful for freedom they would flood North and join the Union Army.
I still believe the United States would have been much better off today if we had picked our own cotton then. Just the same as it would be better off today if we picked our own lettuce and shipped the illegals back to whatever country they came out of.
On Apple podcasts -- about 2000 episodes.
I don't really wish anyone dead because the good Lord says we should love everyone as ourselves. However, there are some I do wish to have a massive and repetitive case of diarrhea while in traffic with a massive dose of sneezing.
Although you may be preaching to the choir...amen.
Thanks! I will miss him as well. Miss you also!
Back to EMDR with my Therapist tomorrow...probably NOT...lol he dropped me on my head and abandoned me in 2021 when I got back to KC and then sent me an email out of the blue right before Christmas 2025 saying he realized he'd never gotten back with me!
I thought about it overnight and responded: "DID YOU FEEL ME IN FETAL POSITION WHEN YOU EMAILED ME THIS?" Yes, I still need help and told you I had no intention of starting over with anyone else. "
So here goes.... a 90 minute session appointment but seriously doubt we get to EMDR tomorrow. But since 2019 when I left, a lot more
BS has occurred and the trauma is still raising it's ugly head.
Love to you always!
It's not all that often that my heart sinks with the news of the death of public figures, but it truly did for Scott Adams. Through Dilbert and his books, he's been a consistent part of my professional zeitgeist since the '80s. He was one of the first cartoonists to embrace the Internet in the mid-'90s, and since then pulling up Dilbert was always part of my morning routine. I'd regularly clip and save the Dilbert cartoons that I found particularly salient. (And often send them to clients and colleagues when they could make a point better than I could) I loved some of his newsletters like Dogbert's New Ruling Class. (I saved them and will have to go back through those now that nothing new will be coming) I don't have time to pay close attention to many podcasts, but I appreciated his, especially during COVID with viewpoints that were quite different than the prevalent ones.
I already miss him. RIP, Scott.
Loved this! Will miss him so much. What a great mind he had.
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