Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on drug cost reductions and healthcare?
How about some lights? Can you turn on some lights for you? Oh, my hand apparently works. Oh, come on, hand. There you go. Has anybody checked the stocks today? Stocks okay today? Let me check and see if it's a smile or a grimace. Continue. Smile or grimace. It's a grimace. What did Tesla do after the big announcement? I wonder if these are old. Is this yesterday's numbers?
I don't see how Tesla could have gone down after yesterday. Did it? Looks like it's just wrong. Maybe that's not updated. Yeah, all right. We'll wait and see.
Chapter 2: How is Trump addressing obesity and healthcare costs?
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Here's a cup or mug or a glass of tanker Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Go. All right, let me make sure I can see your locals comments special.
It would be right over here. If you don't mind, I'm a little slow and getting a little less done because I'm literally working with one hand today. One hand and half a brain. There you are. Comments are working. Everything's looking good, looking good. Hey, do you know what day today is? Does anybody know what day today is?
It's the day you find out that the Dilbert calendar is available and for sale for those few of you who have not already scooped it up. I see a lot of you are being smart and acting fast. I swear to God, the next thing I say is actually literally true and not just the ordinary marketing thing that people say all the time in this situation.
Chapter 3: What insights does Elon Musk provide on robotics and AI advancements?
We probably didn't make enough of them. So if you're thinking to yourself, and by the way, we did that intentionally because I have to pay for them in advance because it's an American situation and we worked on a deal where I would make sure that they would limit any risk on their side, which seemed fair because my precarious situation. So I've already paid for the calendars to be printed.
But I didn't want to print three times more than people might want. So we're a little bit underprinted, we think. But we don't know, right? It's hard to anticipate. But I wouldn't wait, is what I'm saying. If you thought you wanted one, waiting would be a bad strategy. Sooner is better. All right.
And as you know, I like to start the show while people are streaming in with a reframe from my book that's been out for a while. But it's the newest one, Reframe Your Brain. changing lives every day. Let's see, I'm going to change somebody's life today with a new reframe. If you're new to this, a reframe doesn't require any work on your part. You just have to hear it.
And if it's a good one and if it applies to you, the hypnosis will kick in. It's not really hypnosis. It's just persuasive.
Chapter 4: How do tariffs affect coffee prices and the economy?
All right, here's one. 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 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 problems. How did I make this about me? How do you make it about yourself? This is literally only about the deceased person, and their problems just ended. So as soon as you make it not about yourself, you can get by it a lot easier, right? You've solved all the problems for the deceased. They have nothing else to worry about. Their work is done.
And if the reason you feel bad is because they were so good in this world or you love them so much, well, then your work is really done because you have the right feeling about them and they did the right things. And that was great. And nothing lasts forever. How about here's another one on the same topic. So you've got two to work with on death.
Chapter 5: What persuasion lessons can be learned from political figures?
One is that this, by the way, I've used this one before with the public, I mean. And some people have reported back that this completely changes their reaction to a death of somebody that they cared about. All right, listen to this one. So the usual frame is that death is a tragedy. Duh, of course, death is a tragedy. But that leaves you in that tragedy hole, if that's how you're seeing it.
If it's only a tragedy, that's pretty bad. It's going to last. But here's a way to reframe it. It's not more true or less true. It's just useful to reframe it this way. Remember, it's not about truth. It's about how you manage your brain. You can create new circuitry by just thinking about one thing more than another. That's all it takes. And that will make that circuit a little stronger.
So instead of saying death is a tragedy, the reframe is it is an honor to help another person pass. I don't think there's a bigger honor than that. If you've watched family members, if you've been part of it, who were an integral part of letting somebody pass to the next phase of their existence, whatever that is, that is the biggest honor you can have.
And everybody's going to, you know, everybody's going to die.
Chapter 6: How does the Supreme Court's decision impact gender options on passports?
So there's nothing you can do about it sometimes. So it's not always a tragedy explicit. Well, it's not necessarily a tragedy only. It is a tremendous honor that you get to be the person who's there on the final voyage. That will help you a lot. And everybody dies. All right. I wonder if there's any science that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked Scott. Oh, here's some.
In SciPost, Karina Petrova is writing that there's a new statistical model that successfully sorted people into their political group based on their use of X. So apparently you can feed just the raw posts from X and AI will figure out not only are they Republican or Democrat, but it'll figure out sort of where they fit even within those worlds. Now, did they really need to do that study?
Do you think I couldn't look at a politician's posts and guess where they fit in the political world? Did I really need AI to do that? No. They should have just asked me. Maybe Fetterman would have confused me, but AI didn't get them all right. I think AI only got 75% of them right, to which I say, I'm not really impressed by 75%. I'm pretty sure I could have hit 90 without breaking a sweat.
So can you. Next time, just ask me.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of the new weight loss drug pricing?
Well, there's a new bill being floated. We don't know how it'll do, but it's called the U.S. Senate is looking at a bill called the No Coffee Tax Act. the No Coffee Tax Act. Now, as 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 no coffee right now, but I'll 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. 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?
Chapter 8: What strategies are being discussed for the 2028 elections?
Coffee. Coffee. Coffee. Well, I'm going to stick with coffee for now. So what it really is, is I guess Rand Paul is behind this. And I did not know this, but 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. Look at this guy. He can't even say coffee. Coffee. All right.
Nick Brown from Daily Coffee News is reporting. Nick Brown from Daily Coffee News. What a name. All right. The idea is that 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 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. It 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 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, and his name is, he's a Republican from Idaho, and his name is Senator Mike Crapo, C-R-A-P-O. So Mr. Crapo said no, so that 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. K-H-A-N, Khan. And there's that famous thing where the bad actor... The bad actor playing Captain Kirk goes, Khan! Khan! Wouldn't that be better if he was fighting Crappo? Crappo! All right, that's just me. Well, there's a big Tesla event.
I think it's the big annual event. And... Boy, was there news. Plenty of news. Where do we start? Let's see. So apparently there's a video of a hand, a robot hand for Optimus that looks like so amazing you can't believe that they got hands that good. So somebody, I think it was Mario Noffel, posted the video of the hand. And 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 good hand. And I heard Elon talking about it, the hands. And there would be better surgeons than people very soon. Maybe in a year, there will be better surgeons than people. And there will be better dexterity than people with hands.
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 at the crossover point. So you were born in the age of, 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.
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