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Speaker 1: It breaks my heart to say this. M m.
Speaker 2: H m hmmm.
Speaker 1: Diane's husband, Scott has passed away.
Speaker 2: M hm hm.
Speaker 1: After a brief illness Saturday after Saturday afternoon, Scott left us.
Speaker 1: It has been a.
Speaker 3: It has been a rough couple of a couple of months.
Speaker 3: The last couple of weeks have been really really hard,
Speaker 3: especially the last week. I do want to say this
Speaker 3: about Diane, and I do want to say this about Scott.
Speaker 3: Diane has been a trooper. Diane has been so strong
Speaker 3: through this. While all this has been going on, Diane
Speaker 3: has come in every day, partially therapeutically, to.
Speaker 1: Come in.
Speaker 3: And laugh and have some fun times. And then Diane
Speaker 3: would go home and be a loving wife and a
Speaker 3: loving mother, and a and an unbelievably strong woman. And
Speaker 3: then I want to say this about Scott. I've sat
Speaker 3: in this room for since ninety nine with Diane five
Speaker 3: feet away from me every single day, and I have
Speaker 3: to thank Scott for all of it. When I first
Speaker 3: got here and was putting the show together, it was
Speaker 3: Scott who encouraged Diane to even meet with me. It
Speaker 3: was Scott who encouraged Diane to make the change and
Speaker 3: come work with me. And because of Scott's encouragement and support,
Speaker 3: I got to meet Diane and work with Diane.
Speaker 1: Every single day.
Speaker 3: I got to become friends with Scott, share great times
Speaker 3: with them, through getting married, through having a baby, and
Speaker 3: raising a very strong and independent daughter. I'd never thought
Speaker 3: I'd have to come in and do this, so I
Speaker 3: know that there's been some disruption to what we do
Speaker 3: every day, but it was the right thing to do,
Speaker 3: and it will be the right thing to do. Diane
Speaker 3: is doing as well as Diane can do. Diane's going
Speaker 3: to be away for a little while. I don't know
Speaker 3: how long, but even when Diane's ready to come back,
Speaker 3: Diane'll come back Right now, She's surrounded by family, friends,
Speaker 3: her daughter, and as much love as those people can
Speaker 3: give her.
Speaker 1: That's what she's surrounded by. For the rest of the week.
Speaker 1: We are not going to be here. We all need
Speaker 1: some time to grieve.
Speaker 3: We all need some time to process, and we all
Speaker 3: need some time to go be with Diane. So the
Speaker 3: show will be off for the rest of the week
Speaker 3: and we'll come back in here on Monday. When we
Speaker 3: do get back in here on Monday, they'll be somebody
Speaker 3: else temporarily sitting in Diane's chair. Her name is Sarah.
Speaker 3: We've all met her. I've known her for years. She
Speaker 3: came in a little while ago and met everybody met Diane.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be weird, but we'll come back in on Monday,
Speaker 3: and we'll get back to Elliet in the morning.
Speaker 1: Awkward transition. A couple programming notes Vegas.
Speaker 3: Vegas is still happening for the winners. Please go, please
Speaker 3: have fun, Please go enjoy it. We are not going,
Speaker 3: the show will not be going, but please go and
Speaker 3: enjoy it. Mike Jones is going to take over for
Speaker 3: us here in just a little bit. He'll give away
Speaker 3: the remaining trips today and the remaining trips tomorrow.
Speaker 1: For both DC and Richmond. I will say this.
Speaker 3: When I went over and saw Diane on Sunday, her
Speaker 3: biggest shock was I wasn't going. I can't and it
Speaker 3: doesn't feel right, feel right in my heart. But just
Speaker 3: know those will take place, and again I encourage you
Speaker 3: to go have fun, please so Jones, you'll have those
Speaker 3: a little bit later on this morning, seven thirty nine
Speaker 3: o'clock ish today and tomorrow, excuse me, and then winners
Speaker 3: will fly out and that'll all take place. But again
Speaker 3: I hate to say it. All right, p Scottie and Diane,
Speaker 3: I hope you know this and I hope you feel it.
Speaker 3: Put everybody in this room and everybody who tunes in
Speaker 3: every day and your friends, your family, We're here for
Speaker 3: you and we love you.
Speaker 1: May I share something please.
Speaker 4: You so beautifully explain how you, oh, Scott everything for
Speaker 4: this partner ship. And it was Scott over the last
Speaker 4: months who was also encouraging Diane to try to sit
Speaker 4: in this chair. So from before it started twenty seven
Speaker 4: years ago to the end, he still was that driving
Speaker 4: force that knew how strong Diane could be. But one
Speaker 4: of my favorite stories, and I had never heard it,
Speaker 4: and there were obviously five years before I joined the show,
Speaker 4: and Scott told this story at the twenty fifth anniversary party.
Speaker 4: He was so excited to have all of his friends
Speaker 4: tune in to your first day with Diane, and then
Speaker 4: he heard the show. It was horrible, and he said
Speaker 4: to me, Tyler, the show sucked.
Speaker 1: It was horrible.
Speaker 4: He was so embarrassed that he had had anyone tune in,
Speaker 4: and he couldn't believe we were sitting there at that
Speaker 4: dinner and it was twenty five years later. He didn't
Speaker 4: think the show had twenty five days in it because
Speaker 4: it was so bad. And I love that we were
Speaker 4: able to so many years of milestones. Later, at that
Speaker 4: twenty fifth party, hear that at least me for the
Speaker 4: first time, because I don't know those days of the show,
Speaker 4: and to hear you kick this off giving him credit
Speaker 4: for the teaming up of you two, and to know
Speaker 4: how embarrassed he was he did so in real time,
Speaker 4: and then obviously how everything panned out for now since
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety nine and twenty seven years later, he was
Speaker 4: always a pleasure to be around, always told it like
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 1: And we're going to miss him dearly.
Speaker 2: Mhm.
Speaker 3: So we'll be off the rest of the week. We'll
Speaker 3: be back in here on on Monday. And this will
Speaker 3: only make sense to Diane and Marlene. But I gotta
Speaker 3: go outside and throw up some prayers.
Speaker 1: Scottie too. Hotti. We'll miss you, Diane, we love you,
Speaker 1: Elliott in the morning.