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be better ones after this, but if ever there was a time when I thought I was running the simulation, it would be today. And you're going to see this in every story. Every story today is going to look like, "Scott, did you cause that to happen? Did you will that out of the universe and it just happened?" Let me begin with exhibit A for me running the universe. Story number one: daily coffee consum…
← Previous segment →cers not so sure? Well, do you think that the medical examiner is a DEI hire? What do you think? What are the odds? Could it be a DEI hire?
What if it's not? There are two possibilities. If it's a DEI hire, it could be somebody who's just trying to set things right and let's say a Marc Lamont Hill way, as in, well, this is one way I can work to correct the racism that's been endemic in this country for hundreds of years. I can fix this one thing by saying it's homicide. It could be. But it's also possible it's just a generic white guy, and the generic white guy knows he'll be killed if he says it's not homicide. Does that sound familiar?
If you were the generic white guy and it was your job to say, was this homicide or accidental, do you think after the George Floyd situation that a generic white guy medical examiner could say, you know, I looked at this and it just looks like an accident to me, and then he would just go on with his life? Everything would be fine after that, right? Because he was honest. He gave you his real professional opinion, and then he just goes on with his life. Am I right? No. In no world is that medical examiner safe. The medical examiner has to say homicide because it's the only way you can stay alive. Because trust the experts. Am I right?
Let's sip a little coffee to the experts. Well, I'm sure glad that the expert in the medical examination field told us what's true because you can believe it because the experts said it, right? Let's drink to the experts. Experts. We trust them. We trust them.
All right. How perfect is that story? Well, there's a study that says that good-looking lawyers, both male and female, have more success in court. So if you're attractive, you're more likely to win, and it's for both men and women and at all levels of experience. So you know, this really supports my decision to go into the cartooning field. Some of you might know my story. When I went to college, I thought I was pre-law. My initial plan was I'm going to get an economics degree, but I'll make it sort of a pre-law thing, and then I'll go to law school. And then I looked in the mirror and I said, my God, you're never going to win a case with that face. So I immediately looked for a job in which nobody could see me. So I thought, well, radio. I do have a face for radio. But cartooning, even better. Yeah. So if you're not good-looking enough to be a lawyer, try to be a cartoonist. That's my career advice.
Well, here's some fake science. Fake science. Fake science. There's a study that says people who use willpower alone to achieve goals and resist temptation are deemed more trustworthy than those who use tricks. Now, a trick would be like, oh, I have to put five dollars in the swear jar because I swore, or telling other people to bust you if you break your diet. So basically if you use any external crutch to help you do something, people will say you have less willpower, and so we don't trust you as much.
Why is this fake science? There's no such thing as willpower. Willpower is not a thing. They should have talked to the other parts of science. They were actually studying a thing that's imaginary. Literally, willpower doesn't exist. I just did a lesson f
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or my members in the Locals group. So I do little micro lessons, two to four minutes, that gives you a life skill. So after two minutes you learn something you'll know how to do for the rest of your life. Now, if you do about 200 of them, which I have, over 200 micro lessons at scottadams.locals.com, you would know that willpower is literally imaginary. So they did a whole study on a thing that li…
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