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Back to episode — Episode 401 Scott Adams - Proposal to End the Border Wall Impasse

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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'…

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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 this point, that we know for sure, is damaging brains. And apparently pretty much every professional player, and I think even high school and college players, they all have measurable brain damage. And I don't know how I can support that.

So now when I watch football, that's sort of all I see. I just see the brain damage. So I can't enjoy it as a sport anymore because it shouldn't be happening.

By the way, I think all of our sports are completely broken. Can you imagine what sports would look like if we invented them today?

Let me tell you how some of the sports are broken. When basketball was invented, did anybody contemplate that there would be people who were seven foot six playing basketball? Probably not. Probably nobody figured there would be one person that would be three feet taller than the other person.

So first thing you do to fix basketball, just say that you can only play within your height range, right? Because we have precedent for that because we have women's sports and men's sports and there's a reason, because the men are physically stronger and it wouldn't be a good competition if you had them in the same competition. But why is it fair that a five foot eight person can play basketball against a seven foot six person? That doesn't seem fair.

So the first thing is that basketball should be limited by height. You know, maybe within like a four inch range, you just always have to play people at your height.

Tennis is completely broken because of the serve.

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Have you ever tried to watch tennis lately? Used to be my favorite game but then the rackets kept getting better and better. So the technology of the rackets kept improving to the point where if you have a good enough racket, the racket is so strong that the other player can barely hit the ball back. So if you got rid of the serve, tennis could be fun again because the serve just ruins everything.…

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