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Back to episode — Episode 3012 CWSA 11/08/25

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work out? Yeah, exactly like you think. So get rid of your ego first, whatever that takes. I recommend things like the Dale Carnegie course or anything that gets you in an embarrassing situation. So embarrassment is not something you should avoid. It's something you should practice. I learned that from Dale Carnegie. Let me say that again because that's the key point. You ready? Your ego is somet…

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ng people are getting too caught up in the online world. What do you think of that? Do you think that first of all that will work or will they just do VPNs? Can't the kids just do a VPN and suddenly nobody knows who's what? Well, it feels like the kids will get around that, but maybe it'll reduce it. I like it directionally, but it's worth testing. So I won't criticize the details because this is definitely the sort of thing that we should be looking at testing. If they're going to test it in Denmark, good. Do that first.

I saw a headline that Starbucks was having some problems because they introduced a new very cool-looking cup for coffee. And the coffee cup looks like a cute little bear, a little bear. And apparently it's so popular that people are arguing about it, you know, to get the last one. And they're semifighting in line. And Starbucks actually had to release an apology because their product was so good that it caused trouble. Now that's pretty good. Whoever designed that stupid little bear into a cup. I said to myself, "Well, there's no way you'd get in a fight over a cup that looks like a bear. That's not going to happen." And then I looked at the story and clicked on it and I saw the little bear. And as soon as I saw the little bear, I said, "Oh, oh, now I totally get it. I would fight over that little bear. I probably wouldn't have a fist fight over it, but I might, you know, if one of my young kids really absolutely had to have that bear and it was the last one and there was something I could do to make it

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happen, maybe I'd fight over it." It's actually a really good cup. Like crazy good cup. You should see it. It's just really good. So whoever designed that, A+. I saw this on a Colin Rugg post. It's their most successful piece of merchandise. Well, Jesse Watters has a scoop. He says his sources, I think he said this yesterday, that his sources in the Senate say the moderate Democrats are about to…

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