Earlier this month, the legendary “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek passed away at the age of 80 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. On Thursday night, an episode of “Jeopardy!” that was filmed days before his passing aired, and it included a truly powerful Thanksgiving message from Trebek.

“Happy Thanksgiving, ladies and gentlemen. You know, in spite of what America and the rest of the world is experiencing right now, there are many reasons to be thankful,” Trebek said. “There are more and more people extending helpful hands to do a kindness to their neighbors, and that’s a good thing.”

“Keep the faith,” he continued. “We’re gonna get through all of this and we will be a better society because of it.”

High on our list of things to be thankful for this year: Alex's Thanksgiving message from today's show. We hope you have a safe and happy Thanksgiving! pic.twitter.com/8OlpkSGi9r

— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) November 26, 2020

This comes days after it was announced that “Jeopardy!” will be resuming production on November 30 with a rotation of guest hosts, starting with the show’s renowned champion Ken Jennings.

“Alex believed in the importance of Jeopardy! and always said that he wanted the show to go on after him,” Executive Producer Mike Richards said in a statement, according to Entertainment Tonight. “We will honor Alex’s legacy by continuing to produce the game he loved with smart contestants and challenging clues.”

“By bringing in familiar guest hosts for the foreseeable future, our goal is to create a sense of community and continuity for our viewers,” the statement continued.

Richards previously said that Trebek had never told producers who he thought his replacement should be.

“He never mentioned names to us. He really wanted to be the host of the show, while he was the host of the show,” Richards told Entertainment Tonight. “So we didn’t say, ‘Hey, what about this person? What about that person?’ It was his show until he told us he was going to retire and, amazingly, he never did. I think that’s a blessing.”

Though Trebek never gave Richards a name as to who would replace him, “he did talk about what it would take to be a good Jeopardy! host.”

“Typical Alex. He was self-deprecating [and] said, ‘It’s not that hard.’ Let me tell you that it is maybe the hardest show on TV to host; 61 clues in 22 minutes, accents, pronunciations, scoring, calling on people, ruling on the answers,” Richards added. “He talked a lot about how it needs to be someone that the audience will respect, that’s believable in the role [and] has credibility… He was so smart that you bought it, because you knew he knew the answer, too.”