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Write an Unexpected Ending · The Daily Writer

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  SPEAKER_00: Hey my friend, thanks for listening to today's episode of the Daily Rider Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: On May 21, 1990, audiences tuned in to the series finale of the CBS show Newhart.
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  SPEAKER_00: They probably expected a standard final episode that wrapped up the eight-season run, telling the story of Dick Louden, a Vermont innkeeper played by Bob Newhart and the oddball cast of characters who populated the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was not Bob Newhart's first foray into the world of sitcoms, though.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had previously starred in another successful series, the Bob Newhart Show, which ran for six seasons in the 1970s.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the second to last scene of the Newhart finale, Bob stands in the doorway of his inn and he gets hit with a golf ball, which knocks him unconscious.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then in the final scene, much to the surprise and delight of the audience, he wakes up in bed next to his wife from the Bob Newhart Show, and he explains that he had a strange dream about being an innkeeper.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a brilliant way to tie the two series together, and it's considered one of the best series finales in TV history.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surprise endings work in real life too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe up to this point you've lived on a certain pathway of tempered expectations and muted dreams.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe nobody expects much out of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you don't expect much out of yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you just hope to scrape by, and if you get lucky, something good might come along eventually.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing, you can write a new ending that surprises everybody, including yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can choose your pathway and you can rise to the occasion by taking charge of your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't let anybody else determine your ending.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's for you and you alone to choose.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's question Have you decided to take charge of your life direction?
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  SPEAKER_00: Be honest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.