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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 coffe…

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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 apparently. And I wouldn't argue with that. It's a form of a tax. It's just not a normal one. Uh has some advantages that taxes don't have, meaning that you can use them to negotiate with other entities. Taxes don't usually have that. But, uh, apparently they tried to get it through the no tax part. They tried to get that through with a procedure that if you have unanimous consent, meaning that there's not even one person who says no to it, you can just kind of get it through without all the trouble. So they tried that and there was exactly one person. So there's a video of the session that shows that one person, his name is he's a Republican from Idaho and his name is Senator Mike Crapo. C R A P O. So Mr. Crapo uh said no. So that's sent it back to I guess whatever process the full Senate has to follow which is going to take forever and your coffee will still cost too much. So thanks for nothing. Crapo. Crapo. Crapo. That would be better than Khan. If I were writing that Star Trek, remember the Star Trek movie where Captain Kirk is being thwarted by Khan? K h a n. And there's that famous thing where the bad actor, the bad actor playing Captain Kirk, uh, goes, "Khan." Wouldn't that be better if he was fighting Crapo? Crapo. All right, that's just me.

Well, there's a big Tesla event. I think it's the big annual event. Uh, and boy, was there news. Ow, plenty of news. Where do we start? Uh, let's see. So, apparently there there's a video of a hand, a robot hand that for Optimus that looks so amazing you can't believe that they got hands that good. So, somebody I think it was Mario posted the uh video of the hand and uh Elon said that's version two. Version three is way better. If version three robot hand is better than the version two that I saw, that's going to be a big good hand. And I heard uh Elon talking about it, the hands, and they would be better surgeons than people very soon. Maybe in a year, there'll be better surgeons than people. And uh there'll be better dexterity than people with hands. You know, you always thought that, oh, maybe they can see better or hear better or remember better, but their hands will never be as good. Well, apparently we're right at that crossover point. So, you were born in the age when robots became more capable than people. What are the odds of that? Doesn't that feel like a simulation to you? Like, what are the odds?

No, I didn't skip the sip. You missed the sip. Don't blame me for skipping the sip. Sometimes I skip the sip, but I did not skip it today. You're the skipper. I call you the skipper, not me, skipper.

All right. Uh, lots of other Tesla news. Uh, Elon says that Tesla is already the biggest robot company in the world in part because their cars are all robots. They're just robots with wheels. I accept that definition. They are the biggest robot company. Oh, I should tell you I have I do own some not a lot, but I own Tesla stock. So, anything I say about Tesla, you should put under the u

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mbrella of that guy likes that stock. It might go up. So, maybe he's trying to drive up the stock. Do not do anything that I do financially. I do not give good financial advice. You should not follow my advice. If I thought my advice was better than other people financially, I'd tell you. I'm not shy. I'd tell you if it was better. It just isn't. Um anyway, here are the shocking things. Uh that E…

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