Valuetainment - January 18, 2026


＂Jesus ISN’T An Insurance Policy＂ - Dilbert’s Scott Adams ACCEPTS Christ On Deathbed


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16 minutes

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2,989

Sentence count

293

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Misogyny

4

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Toxicity

11

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Hate speech

3

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Dilbert's final message to his ex-wife and why he doesn't need to find Jesus before he goes to heaven. Plus, a story about how a priest actually said Jesus to Scott Adams before he died.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 cartoonist Dilbert's final message before his death
00:00:04.680 to his ex-wife, by the way.
00:00:06.460 Have you guys seen this?
00:00:07.180 To his ex-wife.
00:00:08.100 And by the way, while this happened, okay,
00:00:11.380 should I show what journalist Victoria Edel says
00:00:13.760 or should I say that afterwards?
00:00:14.980 Let's play the clip first, Rob.
00:00:16.560 Play the clip of what the ex-wife is saying
00:00:19.460 with a letter that he wrote, Rob.
00:00:21.280 If you got it, pull it up.
00:00:22.940 Very emotional.
00:00:24.140 I had to retweet it.
00:00:25.420 I got this from Danny Cannell.
00:00:27.820 Send it to me.
00:00:28.540 Danny Cannell, send it to me.
00:00:30.600 Shout out to Danny.
00:00:31.660 Watch this clip here.
00:00:32.660 Go for it.
00:00:33.700 Everyone, unfortunately, this isn't good news.
00:00:39.160 Of course, he waited until just before the show started.
00:00:43.900 But he's not with us right anymore.
00:00:48.080 I'm going to try to get through this.
00:00:50.980 He has a final message that he wanted to say.
00:00:54.920 So I'm going to try to read it.
00:00:56.720 I'm trying to be strong.
00:01:02.700 If you are reading this, things did not go well for me.
00:01:07.400 I have a few things to say before I go.
00:01:11.940 My body fell before my brain.
00:01:14.560 I am of sound mind as I write this January 1st, 2026.
00:01:21.180 If you wonder about any of my choices for my estate or anything else,
00:01:29.540 please know I'm free of any reason or inappropriate influence of any sort.
00:01:37.120 Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go.
00:01:48.060 I'm not a believer, but I have to admit the risk-reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me.
00:01:57.160 So here I go.
00:01:59.580 Logical guy.
00:02:00.760 I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and look forward to spending an eternity with him.
00:02:08.840 The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven.
00:02:16.320 I won't need any more convincing than that.
00:02:22.040 I hope I'm still qualified for entry.
00:02:26.080 With your permission, I'd like to explain my life.
00:02:30.900 For the first part of my life, I was focused on making myself a worthy husband and parent as a way to find meaning.
00:02:50.560 That worked.
00:02:52.320 But marriages don't always last forever.
00:02:54.440 You can pause it right there.
00:02:55.280 You can pause it right there.
00:02:56.240 And it goes on.
00:02:56.980 It's a six-minute clip.
00:02:57.880 If you haven't seen it, I recommend you watching it.
00:03:00.260 So in the letter, he accepts Jesus Christ.
00:03:02.940 His ex-wife is reading it.
00:03:04.100 Very sentimental.
00:03:05.280 And then you get this story.
00:03:08.120 Journalist Victoria had a face of backlash over Scott Adams' obituary disgraceful hit piece.
00:03:15.960 Scott Adams' disgraced Dilbert creator dies at 68 years old.
00:03:23.320 Okay.
00:03:23.600 Vinny, I'm going to come to you with this story because I know you've got a lot of thoughts on this.
00:03:26.180 Yeah.
00:03:26.440 How do you react to this, Vinny?
00:03:27.880 Well, I mean, A, you know, God rest his soul.
00:03:31.780 I think, you know, a couple people saw the, I'm saying that when she read the letter, very emotional.
00:03:37.400 If you weren't really, really paying attention, you would see, you know, this was somebody, and I knew me and you were going to get into this conversation.
00:03:45.020 So, Adam, he's, he's, this is his last letter as he's dying, and he's saying, and I'll read it quick.
00:03:49.940 Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go.
00:03:52.960 I'm not a believer, but I have to admit the risk, reward calculation for doing so looks attractive.
00:03:59.160 So here I go.
00:03:59.720 I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and I look forward to spending my eternity with him.
00:04:05.640 The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved.
00:04:08.200 If I wake up in heaven, I won't need any more convincing than that.
00:04:11.040 I hope I'm still qualified for entry.
00:04:13.040 It's funny, and as cool as it seems, it's kind of making a mockery of Christianity.
00:04:18.440 Because, you know, when we talked about Adam, you always ask the question, Vinny, you mean a person could be a murderer?
00:04:22.620 And the last moment, he says, I'm sorry, and he goes to heaven.
00:04:25.940 The same thing with the murderers that was on the cross with Jesus, but that one of them actually asked for forgiveness and was truly meant it.
00:04:33.120 And God, Jesus said that you're going to be with me in paradise.
00:04:35.680 This, to me, is like a, well, last-ditch effort.
00:04:38.520 Well, if it's true, then let's do it.
00:04:40.640 I think, I hope to God, Adam, that after this funny moment that he had, he really did have a moment where he seriously stopped and said,
00:04:48.880 Jesus, or somebody spoke to him, a pastor, a priest, and actually gave it to him.
00:04:53.420 And actually, he was honest.
00:04:54.820 Because this right here is what you talk about, that insurance policy.
00:04:58.500 Oh, I'm going to die.
00:04:59.280 Well, all right, I believe in Jesus.
00:05:00.820 That's not how it works.
00:05:01.900 That's not how it works in this situation.
00:05:04.300 I will, however, Patrick, there was a video that he made that hit me so hard.
00:05:09.760 I sent it to Rob, and even Rob.
00:05:11.400 Rob, you showed this to your son?
00:05:12.820 Yeah, I sent it to him to watch.
00:05:13.640 It is such an awesome thing, guys.
00:05:16.180 It's about laziness.
00:05:17.580 I don't know if you, have you seen this?
00:05:19.300 No.
00:05:19.500 It's about laziness, and it's, he says that it's the habit of thinking about the effort instead of thinking about the outcome.
00:05:26.640 I have Rob playing it at 1.5, so it's a little bit fast.
00:05:29.900 But look at how, look at how amazing this is.
00:05:31.620 This completely changed my thinking.
00:05:32.880 Go ahead, Rob.
00:05:35.060 What if, what if, laziness is a habit of thinking about the cost of things or the effort instead of thinking about the payoff?
00:05:45.080 I'm going to say it again.
00:05:46.500 Get a few more heads to explode. 0.93
00:05:47.860 What if, laziness is, oh.
00:05:53.760 Is it on Twitter, or if it is, it's going to keep stopping.
00:05:57.140 Okay, so he says, you can reverse laziness by simply developing a habit of thinking more about, like, for instance, the delicious food that you're going to eat instead of, like, the effort that it takes to do it.
00:06:08.200 Like, he said, like, with kids.
00:06:09.660 He goes, why do people have three or four kids?
00:06:11.880 If people sat there and they're like, oh, man, having the kid is the worst, you always hear them saying, I'm going to have more kids.
00:06:17.620 Because it's, you're focusing on the in-between instead of what you're going to, is this it, Rob?
00:06:23.300 The payoff.
00:06:23.800 Yeah, the payoff, which is actually pretty freaking awesome.
00:06:26.640 So that's a great thing that he had.
00:06:30.520 Bob, are you going to play it?
00:06:32.140 I think we got a little gist.
00:06:33.460 Get a few more heads to explode. 0.93
00:06:35.000 What if laziness is nothing but a habit of thinking about the effort instead of thinking about the outcome?
00:06:41.600 What if you could reverse laziness by simply developing a habit of thinking more about the, let's say, the delicious food that you'd like to enjoy instead of how long it would take you to get up and go get it?
00:06:52.900 But the real question is, if you were to test this at home and try to see if you can think more about the good outcome and less about the work, would you get it done?
00:06:59.980 Why is it that people have a second child?
00:07:02.000 Why does a woman who goes through this awful, awful childbirth have a second child? 1.00
00:07:07.520 Don't they always say the same thing?
00:07:08.620 If I remembered how bad this was, I wouldn't do it again.
00:07:11.180 Right?
00:07:12.340 So the not thinking about the effort is vital to actually the survival of humanity.
00:07:16.840 If we focused on how hard it was to have a baby, you just wouldn't do it or you'd do too little of it.
00:07:20.860 But if you focus on how awesome it would be to have a family, well, there you go.
00:07:24.460 You're going to go through the pain because you've already committed.
00:07:27.100 Am I ambitious or do I simply have a thinking habit which produces dopamine because I'm thinking about the positive outcome?
00:07:33.620 And is the dopamine the thing that gets me up and moving?
00:07:35.560 And when you're observing me, you say, how the hell do you get so much done?
00:07:38.560 And how do I do it?
00:07:39.760 I think it's just this.
00:07:40.680 I think it's just this.
00:07:42.120 When I think of all the things I do, I think about them in terms of their benefits.
00:07:45.620 Rob, you can pause it, Rob.
00:07:46.480 And I think in regard to the People magazine, girl, the fact that O.J. Simpson died, okay?
00:07:53.220 O.J. Simpson, a murderer, died.
00:07:56.300 And their headline was, O.J. Simpson dead at 76 from cancer, family announces.
00:08:01.720 That's it right there.
00:08:02.480 But when Scott Adams dies because he was, you know, a Trump supporter, look what they write.
00:08:06.600 Scott Adams, disgraced Dilbert creator, dies at 68.
00:08:11.060 A murderer gets the nice one, but a guy that liked Trump gets a disgrace.
00:08:16.140 This is the day that he died.
00:08:17.860 They write that.
00:08:18.540 So it just goes to show you People magazine.
00:08:20.200 Where are you at with the story, Ann?
00:08:22.560 Well, Vinny just made me feel very guilty because I meant to send Scott Adams, my minister, Redeemer.com.
00:08:32.960 It would convince anyone because I sort of agree with you.
00:08:36.020 I hope you really believed it, but just taking Bascale's wager, that isn't going to do it.
00:08:41.400 And I know Tim Keller would have convinced him, and suddenly he was dead, and I hadn't sent it yet.
00:08:47.440 So I'm feeling very bad about that.
00:08:50.360 This reminds me, I was just thinking about this the other day, which is why, oh, my gosh, Twitter being down is so much more important to me than Iran. 0.62
00:08:58.300 Twitter is so important for the truth getting out there, including on immigration, like you were talking about.
00:09:06.480 And, you know, all the MSM is showing us is, oh, the poor illegal immigrant.
00:09:12.380 Whoa, those aren't the ones you see on, those aren't the videos you see on Twitter.
00:09:16.600 And it wasn't just that one.
00:09:18.160 I mean, there was some horrible terrorist where the headline was, you know, honored Islamic scholar dies.
00:09:26.200 I just sent that to Rob.
00:09:28.300 Okay.
00:09:28.900 Yeah, can I talk about that?
00:09:30.420 Yes, go ahead.
00:09:31.120 But you see, but those weren't the only ones.
00:09:33.600 The contrast all over Twitter.
00:09:35.820 So thank God for Twitter.
00:09:38.640 And I interviewed Scott Adams on my Substack, and he was really interesting, and it was a lot of fun.
00:09:45.600 And the racist thing was unfair.
00:09:47.880 It was, I think, a clumsy joke, in my opinion.
00:09:51.560 But if you'll remember what it was, there was just this poll that turned out to be a BS poll
00:09:55.660 saying that a majority of black people said that it's not okay to be white.
00:10:03.160 So it was a BS poll, but he read it.
00:10:06.180 He believed it. 1.00
00:10:06.800 He says, therefore, black people are racist, and therefore we should stay the hell away from black people. 0.99
00:10:12.260 It's one of those things where you can't, some things you just should stay away from making jokes about. 0.99
00:10:18.400 So it was a clumsy joke, but oh, my gosh, his publisher canceled him.
00:10:22.060 His syndicate, my former syndicate, canceled him.
00:10:24.460 He got canceled every place.
00:10:26.500 And to be putting that in the obituaries, oh, come on.
00:10:30.080 Oh, here it is.
00:10:30.800 There it is.
00:10:31.600 Well, yeah, that's why you always need to check the source and say, is this a credible source, a biased source?
00:10:40.360 Are they far left?
00:10:41.500 Are they far right?
00:10:42.240 Which one is it?
00:10:43.300 So the cartoonist from Dilbert dies, and he's this bad dude and this controversial guy.
00:10:49.580 But the austere leader of ISIS, you know, Jihad al-Baghdadi, whatever his name was, what a guy.
00:10:58.700 So just check your source.
00:11:00.080 There it is.
00:11:00.900 Abu al-Bakar al-Baghdadi, the austere religious scholar at the helm of an Islamic state, dies at 48.
00:11:07.540 What a guy.
00:11:08.620 It's the same.
00:11:09.520 Cartoonist from Dilbert, Mr. Adams over here. 0.94
00:11:13.260 Disgraced. 0.93
00:11:13.980 Disgraced.
00:11:14.860 Although that needed to say died suddenly at 48.
00:11:18.200 The other thing I'll say is racist is the most overused term.
00:11:22.620 I don't know.
00:11:23.140 I'm not going to judge him right now.
00:11:25.200 He does make a great point about the kids.
00:11:28.560 You know, you have one kid and you go back for two.
00:11:30.680 I was hanging out with a lady last night, a friend.
00:11:32.820 She has 11 kids. 1.00
00:11:34.160 Damn. 1.00
00:11:34.560 And she's trying to convince my girl, like, go for it. 1.00
00:11:37.040 Come on.
00:11:37.460 I'm going to do number 12 if you do number one.
00:11:39.060 I'm like, this lady just wants a baker dozen. 1.00
00:11:41.340 I don't know if she's looking for a football team.
00:11:43.280 11 kids.
00:11:44.320 The last point is this.
00:11:45.440 We're on the same page here.
00:11:46.840 This is my concern.
00:11:47.680 And he's a good guy.
00:11:48.560 And I talk about bad people.
00:11:50.320 At the last second Hail Mary accepting Jesus. 0.95
00:11:53.460 This, to me, was a risk-reward calculation.
00:11:56.460 That's not how it works.
00:11:57.240 Not pure.
00:11:58.040 A hundred percent.
00:11:58.600 Come to your heart.
00:11:59.280 A hundred percent.
00:11:59.540 So I've been Jewish my whole life.
00:12:00.740 It's on my deathbed.
00:12:01.500 It's like, Jesus.
00:12:03.360 No.
00:12:03.660 Like, that's not how it works.
00:12:04.320 Because you know who knows your heart?
00:12:06.080 Jesus.
00:12:06.820 He knows.
00:12:07.580 And there's no way to get to the father except through the son.
00:12:10.480 Okay?
00:12:10.700 And just to go back really, really fast.
00:12:12.680 Do you guys remember when Hassan Soleimani was killed?
00:12:15.300 New York Times published an op-ed.
00:12:16.960 They called him a freedom fighter.
00:12:18.620 CNN, NPR.
00:12:19.620 They called him hero to supporters and a popular figure in Iran. 0.97
00:12:24.020 It's a freaking joke. 0.98
00:12:25.800 It is a joke. 0.99
00:12:26.380 And, Ann, I didn't know that about you.
00:12:27.620 That's so, I understand the feeling that you didn't message him.
00:12:31.500 But just hoping that we could pray that he did have a moment where maybe the Holy Spirit
00:12:36.340 was like, hey, you have this opportunity.
00:12:38.840 And I just, I hope and I pray that he came to it right there.
00:12:41.460 Because a word and a letter, that's not going to come.
00:12:44.300 And, Adam, Ann made the point about Pascal's wager.
00:12:46.800 You hope that none of your friends, you know, are simply making Pascal's wager.
00:12:50.920 And they think it's like this little fire alarm at the last moment.
00:12:53.360 That it's a genuine, and I have deep respect for Tim Keller.
00:12:57.340 And I believe that anybody that would encounter at a moment facing their own mortality,
00:13:03.440 Tim's writings, I believe that they would be compelled.
00:13:06.620 I think that's what you were saying.
00:13:07.760 I agree with that.
00:13:08.840 Tim's tremendous.
00:13:09.960 You know, and I just think the dialogue has become so heated and so nasty.
00:13:15.720 You know, as I've often said, once upon a time, I used to think that
00:13:20.580 liberals think I'm evil when I just thought liberals were wrong, right?
00:13:29.060 But I think it's become much deeper and worse than that.
00:13:33.060 I mean, it goes on both sides.
00:13:34.080 Yeah, I think they're evil.
00:13:35.920 Yeah, well, so do I.
00:13:38.220 But it's become deeper than that.
00:13:39.740 Even Matt Judge, when O.J. died, as I recall, the Drudge Report took heat
00:13:45.640 because the headline they carried was, Cancer Murders O.J.
00:13:50.220 Was the, I believe, was the...
00:13:52.640 Wait, who had that headline?
00:13:54.520 That's hilarious.
00:13:56.180 Yeah, if you go back, the Drudge Report took heat for it.
00:13:59.240 That's funny.
00:14:00.040 But I think it was, Cancer Murders O.J.
00:14:02.160 That's really funny.
00:14:03.540 Hey, Hank Holder's got a very interesting sense of humor.
00:14:07.900 If that's not that and you came up with it, Tom, I think it's hilarious.
00:14:10.800 No, no, it was the Drudge Report members.
00:14:12.500 Cancer One O.J. Zero.
00:14:14.900 Vinny's got something special he wants to share with you guys.
00:14:17.200 And when Vinny does this, it's a very, very special moment.
00:14:20.180 So, Vinny, tell us what you've been working on.
00:14:21.940 Thank you, Pat.
00:14:22.460 So, as you guys know, I have the Faith Over Fear line,
00:14:25.280 and this shirt that I'm wearing right now is our newest.
00:14:27.900 Faith Over Fear was more of how you live.
00:14:30.240 This shirt is on how you stand.
00:14:32.100 And so, in Isaiah 6, verse 8, Isaiah has a vision of God in his throne,
00:14:37.500 and he's asking.
00:14:38.340 He wants somebody to step up to go to Israel to, you know, call people to God.
00:14:41.620 They're resisting.
00:14:42.240 They're rejecting him.
00:14:43.220 And God says, whom shall I send and who will go for us?
00:14:47.460 And Isaiah, knowing the cost, just answers quick.
00:14:50.520 He goes, here am I.
00:14:52.040 Send me.
00:14:52.580 And there's actually a moment, Pat, in the movie Fury.
00:14:54.860 Do you guys remember Shia LaBeouf?
00:14:56.580 His name is Bible in the movie.
00:14:58.900 John Bernthal, Brad Pitt.
00:15:00.440 They're in this tank division.
00:15:01.340 The tank has been destroyed, okay?
00:15:03.340 They know that they're all going to die.
00:15:05.060 They can run.
00:15:06.300 They can leave.
00:15:07.000 But they choose to stay there and delay the enemy from advancing.
00:15:11.240 And Shia LaBeouf has that moment where he goes, this is a righteous act, gentlemen.
00:15:15.400 And he quotes the verse from Isaiah.
00:15:18.040 He goes, here am I.
00:15:19.160 Send me.
00:15:19.680 So, it's about answering the call, even when it costs everything.
00:15:23.320 So, that's what this shirt means today.
00:15:25.080 It's speaking the word when it's unpopular and standing firm, regardless of the consequences.
00:15:30.920 And so, the front of the shirt is Isaiah 6-8.
00:15:34.020 Valuetainment is here.
00:15:35.160 And that's the back of the shirt right there.
00:15:37.380 Here am I.
00:15:37.880 Send me.
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00:15:41.400 Get you guys a shirt.
00:15:42.640 And, yeah.
00:15:43.720 That's it.
00:15:43.940 I'm proud of you, buddy.
00:15:44.640 Thank you.
00:15:45.320 Here am I.
00:15:45.960 Step up.
00:15:46.260 I'm proud of you for reading the Torah.
00:15:47.640 You're welcome.
00:15:48.040 Last time he did this, 10,000 Faith Over Fear shirts were picked up.
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