[But] Did you hear how Dr. Carson invented the lobotomy?
As a teen, he was tinkering in his family’s garage with a soldering iron and a coat hanger, you know, just a curious teen with a dream to become a brain surgeon … long story short, he filed and soldered down that coat hanger into a pair of finely sharped pins and stuck them through his nose into his brain … and wha-lah, he invented the lobotomy. A small, inconvenient side affect was that he suddenly started telling and believing all those fantastical stories about grain silos, scholarships to free schools, stabbings, magic elixirs, and on and on.

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