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th your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. Perfection. Well, let's talk about the news, shall we? We'll start with some science to get you warmed up. USA scientists found a molecule they think could cure baldness. So t…

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Every six months I see a story that baldness has maybe been cured. Do you know how much baldness has been cured in the last 50 years of great advancements in curing baldness? Not a lot.

And generally, if they find something that does cure your baldness and makes your penis not work, it's pretty much a guarantee. So no, I don't believe anything about any story that says they're going to cure my baldness or anybody else's.

According to a story in Newsweek, psychopaths are more attractive. Did you know that psychopaths are more attractive and therefore, because people trust attractive people—they shouldn't, but they do—the psychopaths can get away with more because they get trusted because they're attractive.

Now, here's my question to you. Where's the cause and where's the effect? If psychopaths are more attractive. I've told you this story before about when I was very young. I remember looking in the mirror and saying to myself, "Looks like you're not going to play in the NBA. Probably not. You know, chances are you won't play in the NBA." And so I planned my life around the alternative, which is, you know, go to college

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and build up my brain. Do you think the psychopaths, when they're very young, they can tell they're unusually attractive already? And they're not psychopaths yet, but they quickly learn that because they're attractive, they can get away with murder. So I think being attractive turns you into a psychopath because you don't need to worry about consequences whereas I have to worry about consequences…

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