Back to episode — Episode 401 Scott Adams - Proposal to End the Border Wall Impasse
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n acceptable replacement. So I came up with a plan for ending this whole border wall problem. You know, you've got the Democrats saying walls don't work and you've got the Republicans saying walls work. And here's what I propose. Are you ready? Since we know that Democrats love complicated multivariate prediction models such as for climate change, why don't we create a complex multivariate model…
← Previous segment →ding the economy and race relations and everything else. You've got to put it all in your model and you should predict 80 years into the future because, you know, there's nothing more believable than a complex multivariate model that you can't see the code that predicts something exactly 80 years in the future. We know the Democrats will believe that kind of thing.
So let's get busy on that. Let's turn it over to the scientists and do some studies. We've got to get to the bottom of this. Do walls work from a scientific basis or are we all just using our anecdotal information and we don't really know if walls work? So let's be the group that believes in science and study walls. Find out if walls actually stop people from going where they wanted to go without that wall.
Ah, it's not getting a simultaneous sip there. That was asynchronous. That was the asynchronous sip and I hope you didn't mind.
Super Bowl prediction. Yes, I will now give you my Super Bowl prediction. And before I give you my Super Bowl prediction, there's just one piece of information I need. Can somebody tell me who's playing?
I am vaguely aware that the Patriots are in the Super Bowl. Are they playing against another team? Is there somebody else playing? Who's the other team? Let's see how long it takes somebody in the comments to tell me who the Pats are playing.
It seems to be the Patriots versus, we don't remember, which would be very predictive, don't you think? If you can't remember, the Rams. Okay, the Patriots versus the Rams.
Well, as you know, I always like to pick winners based on whether the mascots, how the mascots would do if they fought each other. So here you have a Patriot who would obviously be armed with a musket, kind of a long rifle, probably with a bayonet. And then you have the ram. It's got these big old ram horns.
So in a battle between a ram and a Patriot, it would sort of depend how quickly the Patriot could reload his musket. Because if the Patriot gets off one lucky shot, well I'd say the Patriot beats the ram. But a few misses with the first shot, I've got a feeling the ram kills the Patriot while he's trying to reload his musket. So it depends on accuracy.
Now, do the Patriots have an accurate quarterback? Well, turns out they do. Turns out they do. So I'm gonna go with the Patriots. Don't hate me for making the obvious choice.
All right. Will Gillette be in any ads? No.
So I have to tell you that I've stopped paying attention to football. I don't know if I'll turn on the Super Bowl tonight or not. Maybe if I'm bored.
Thank you, somebody read my book "God's Debris." I liked it. It said all of the big event. I forgot about the bayonet.
Yeah, so maybe it'd be more advantage to the Patriot.
What was I talking about? Oh, football. So I lost int
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erest in football and it wasn't because of the protests over the anthem. From the start I said the anthem protests were offensive but they were meant to be. So they were effective in the sense that they got our attention. I don't think it's been effective in making anything change but you got our attention. Here's why I stopped watching football. It's hard to support something that we know at thi…
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