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one. Uh, death is a tragedy, and I need to feel bad about it. Do any of you have an issue about maybe you lost a loved one and you feel obligated to feel bad about it? Not just obligated, but you feel bad about it. Well, death is a tragedy and uh it's there's nothing wrong with feeling bad about it, but you don't want to do it forever. Here's the reframe. The person who's deceased has no more prob…

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uh it's called the uh the US Senate is looking at a bill called the No Coffee Tax Act. The No Coffee Tax Act. Now, as uh Owen Gregorian pointed out on X, that is a really bad naming convention because the first part of it is no coffee. I don't want to vote for anything that has the words no coffee in it. I don't even care that after it it says tax. I'd give you a million dollars if you drink coffee in one minute. I'd still be a little put off by the no coffee. You know what I mean? So, here's your persuasion lesson of the day. There's going to be some more. We've got some more persuasion coming up if you like that stuff. Uh, don't name your thing the opposite of what it is. The whole point of this is that we get more coffee. Coffee. Sorry, you're making me say coffee in my New York accent. I didn't mean to slip into it, but sometimes. Coffee. How do you people say it? Coffee. Coffee. Coffee. Well, I'm gonna stick with coffee for now.

Um, so what it really is is I guess uh Rand Paul is behind this and I did not know this, but uh coffee in particular. Coffee. Stop mocking me for the way I say it. You're mocking me at home. I can hear you mocking me from home. Stop it. Now you're talking to your dog saying, "Look at this guy. Can't even say coffee." Coffee. All right. Um Nick Brown from Daily Coffee News is reporting this. Nick Brown from Daily Coffee News. What a name. All right. Um the idea is th

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at apparently there's big tariffs on coffee from Brazil in particular, which is the biggest impact on us. So the tariffs are as high as 50%. And that's enough to basically just, you know, destroy Starbucks. I don't know if it will, but that's bad enough. So, it's a big impact on our economy and on our people and on our budgets. And tariffs, you know, you could call a tariff a tax. Rand Paul does a…

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