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Don't Expect the Bag of Chips to Grow · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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  Speaker 1: your day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, tenth day of December. I'm Wes, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. Two weeks to Christmas Eve, just giving you
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  Speaker 2: the heads up. Maybe you don't want to hear it yet,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you need to hear it. I don't know which
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  Speaker 2: it is. I'm just telling you we're two weeks to
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Eve. That's where we are with things. The shopping
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  Speaker 2: day time is running out, and you got to get
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  Speaker 2: those orders done. If you're ordering things online, and you've
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  Speaker 2: got to give yourself time for that stuff to come in,
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  Speaker 2: especially if you have to then ship it somewhere else,
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  Speaker 2: you may already be past that deadline.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel like you're probably already.
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  Speaker 2: Past that deadline, depending on where it's gonna ship. I
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  Speaker 2: guess I had to venture in to the post office yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Very briefly. All I needed was a stamp. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: you can't buy a stamp without going, I guess, to
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  Speaker 2: a teller or whatever they're called, or they called tellers.
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  Speaker 2: You have to go to the machine and buy at
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  Speaker 2: least two stamps.
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  Speaker 3: It's just the minimum that you can buy. I needed one.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose eventually at some point I will need another.
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  Speaker 2: And the line was, you know, like out the door.
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  Speaker 2: When I went, it was in the morning, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what it looked like the rest of the day.
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  Speaker 2: But we're in that phase by the way of shipping things.
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  Speaker 2: So good luck if you got.
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  Speaker 3: To mail it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to be fun if you got to
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  Speaker 2: go into the post office to do that. And yeah, godspeed,
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  Speaker 2: good luck all that stuff. I mean, that's the best
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  Speaker 2: I can do for you at this point. And they
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  Speaker 2: were people complaining, they weren't happy about it, and I
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  Speaker 2: get it, but we're you know, this is kind of
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  Speaker 2: that sweet spot for getting stuff mailed, so you gotta
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  Speaker 2: do what you gotta do if you can. And that's
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons I think people would like to
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of the ordering thing is you can have
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  Speaker 2: things ship directly to people when you order them sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, plan accordingly. We don't do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of We used to do shipping overseas. It got very
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  Speaker 2: expensive to ship overseas for us, and we just decided that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, smaller mail we can do. It's tougher to
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  Speaker 2: you know, send package and things. It's very expensive. Not
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  Speaker 2: the most recent trip to Australia we did this year,
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  Speaker 2: but the previous trip when we went just.
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  Speaker 3: Before COVID, before all Hellbrook, lowse.
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  Speaker 2: So six years ago, almost exactly six years ago. While
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  Speaker 2: we were on that trip, some of my nephews we
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  Speaker 2: were talking with them about the serial here that we
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  Speaker 2: have in the US that they do not have there,
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  Speaker 2: at least they did not six years ago. I assume
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  Speaker 2: they still don't called cinnamon toast crunch. I'm sure you're familiar.
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  Speaker 2: And they were just fascinated by the idea of this
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  Speaker 2: cereal and I said, when I get home, I'll ship
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  Speaker 2: you guys some boxes of it. And they were like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that'd be amazing, that'd be great. And then I found
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  Speaker 2: out how expensive it was to ship cereal and I
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  Speaker 2: thought it's I mean, it's like ten times the cost
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  Speaker 2: of one box of cereal to ship it. And I
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  Speaker 2: thought that's not happening. And I had to apologize. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: this is ridiculous. I don't think paying that much for
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  Speaker 2: two boxes of cereal is worth it, and they agreed, thankfully.
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  Speaker 2: They were very gracious to let me out of that
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  Speaker 2: verbal contract. But that was the beginning of the end
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  Speaker 2: for us shipping anything large. I mean we get things
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  Speaker 2: from my in laws now where it's like a calendar,
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  Speaker 2: you know, things like that. Things that are small can
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  Speaker 2: kind of go like mail and it's not quite as crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's still not cheap, but it's not absolutely nuts. So
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  Speaker 2: that's where we are. We're two weeks out from Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's fifteen days to Christmas, and you know
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  Speaker 2: you gotta get some stuff moving right along, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you haven't already. We have packages showing up at
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  Speaker 2: the house. We have a number of items showing up.
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  Speaker 2: I've bought some things in person. I've gone into a
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  Speaker 2: number of stores. I've got something actually to pick up
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  Speaker 2: today at a store that we ordered ahead of time.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a little bit of grief that has been
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  Speaker 2: given by folks on the left. They're saying that the
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  Speaker 2: president's you know, any of the releases yesterday about the economy,
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  Speaker 2: about employment, about unemployment, about where prices are, where inflation is.
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  Speaker 2: They're saying, well, he's not saying a lot because he
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  Speaker 2: hasn't quite figured out. You know, if he can lie
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  Speaker 2: about it, he would have told it to us.
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  Speaker 3: If he can brag about it.
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  Speaker 2: And of course he brags about everything, and that's just
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  Speaker 2: part of who he is, right, love him or hate him,
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  Speaker 2: that's part of who he is. He's going to brag,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to tell you it's the best ever, and
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  Speaker 2: all those sorts of things. That's just who he is. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a big part of his whole DNA right
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  Speaker 2: who he is. So there's been grief about that, and
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  Speaker 2: I just want to point out a couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, this is where we are now. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he hasn't been back in office for a whole year yet,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the people that expected him to get
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  Speaker 2: into office and immediately just start lowering prices of things.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this on the show when he first
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  Speaker 2: got in. That's not an easy thing to do. And
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  Speaker 2: let's let's be blunt about a few things, because prices
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  Speaker 2: on some things have gone down. But the way this
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  Speaker 2: works is kind of simple. In a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 2: There are there are things that you're going to see
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  Speaker 2: flo gas prices are down.
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  Speaker 3: The goal, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, would be that if gas prices go down, shipping
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  Speaker 2: costs go down. Therefore it helps the price of things
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  Speaker 2: go down. But the reality is, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: give you this as an example of and this will
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  Speaker 2: if you live in a town that does this. If
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  Speaker 2: you don't, be thankful, because I do. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to give this as an example of how things kind
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  Speaker 2: of work with inflation and the reality of things. So
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  Speaker 2: think about it in sort of these terms. For folks
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  Speaker 2: that live here we do this show. I'm based out
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  Speaker 2: of Columbus, Georgia. The Chattahoochee Valley area is where you know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of our radio audience is. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: now we have people that listen all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you God, bless you for that. It's so humbling
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  Speaker 2: when I go through, when I look at the countries
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  Speaker 2: that we have people listening in, I understand some of
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  Speaker 2: that maybe VPNs, but I do hear from people in
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  Speaker 2: other countries. It's wild when I get, you know, contacted
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  Speaker 2: by someone who is at you know.
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  Speaker 3: The BBC or things like that. That's happened.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of our listeners can probably at least
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  Speaker 2: relate to this. And wherever you live, maybe you do
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  Speaker 2: this as well. But here in Columbus Georgia, not to
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  Speaker 2: be confused with Ohio or Mississippi or any of the
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  Speaker 2: other Columbuses, we do a thing where we we have
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  Speaker 2: this every couple of years, we vote to raise our
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  Speaker 2: own taxes by implementing a special purpose local option sales
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  Speaker 2: tax right. And there's different versions of it. And the
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  Speaker 2: first year that they sold us on this, it was
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're gonna when you when you make a purchase,
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  Speaker 2: we're just going to add a one penny sales tax
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  Speaker 2: to it. And part of what we were told, part
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  Speaker 2: of the bill of the bill of sale for this,
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  Speaker 2: the notion of this is going to be a great idea,
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  Speaker 2: is that it was going to raise some money that
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  Speaker 2: could be used for things here in Columbus, and it
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  Speaker 2: would only last for I believe the first one was
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  Speaker 2: going to be ten years. If I it may have
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  Speaker 2: been five, but you know, excuse me if I, because
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  Speaker 2: this gets a little fuzzy. But I'm just going to say,
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  Speaker 2: for the purposes of this analogy, it was ten years,
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  Speaker 2: and we voted on it, and people said, sure, we
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  Speaker 2: can handle a one penny sales tax increase. And about
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  Speaker 2: five years in, uh, someone said, hey, let's do another one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the other one's going to be over in
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  Speaker 2: five years. Think of all the good things we can
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  Speaker 2: do with this other penny. And you know, the other
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  Speaker 2: one will be gone and we'll be back down to
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  Speaker 2: this level. And then in you know, five years after that,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be back to our original number. And as you
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  Speaker 2: can imagine, that's not the way it's worked.
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  Speaker 3: It's been.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, the first one expired, and they said, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's let's re up it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Again, to the point now where we pay more in
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  Speaker 2: sales tax and you know, we're tied for the most
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  Speaker 2: anywhere in the state of Georgia. We pay ridiculous amounts
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  Speaker 2: because they keep adding new ones. Hey, the other ones
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  Speaker 2: are going to run out, and then they never run out.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's not exactly an apples to apples analogy,
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  Speaker 2: but that's basically the way inflation works. Once you get
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  Speaker 2: used to it, it's just there. You can't expect the
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  Speaker 2: businesses to say, this is what you're used to paying
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  Speaker 2: for this, so we're just going to drop the prices
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  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 3: There's some things that they will do that for and don't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not pretending to even be any sort of an economist,
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  Speaker 2: an economist, an economist. I was trying to mess it
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  Speaker 2: up intentionally the way I do, and I messed up
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  Speaker 2: messing it up. I'm not an expert by any means,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm just telling you the reality is this, and
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  Speaker 2: it relates a little bit to the shrinkflation thing that
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  Speaker 2: we heard a lot about during the end of the
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  Speaker 2: Biden administration. Who were actually making our case for the
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  Speaker 2: inflation problem. I mean, this is what we were dealing
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  Speaker 2: with by this administration. There's no inflation. We fixed it. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: This shrinkflation is bad. It was an attempt to tell
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  Speaker 2: you that the businesses were the ones that were trying
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  Speaker 2: to when it came to the cost of goods, right,
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  Speaker 2: That's what they were trying to sell you on. But
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  Speaker 2: the reality is there were businesses that were one still
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  Speaker 2: recovering from COVID. They gave us no grace on recovering
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  Speaker 2: from COVID.
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  Speaker 3: We were on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: They put their foots on our throats and said, we're
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  Speaker 2: worried about green energy and we're not really worried about
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  Speaker 2: helping the country get back on track. And that was
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  Speaker 2: part of it. But think about this. Okay, a bag
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  Speaker 2: of potato chips, that's one and you may not have
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  Speaker 2: even been aware of it, but like a regular bag
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  Speaker 2: of potato chips for us shrunk down to a smaller bag,
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  Speaker 2: and then they gave them like everywhere that you could
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  Speaker 2: buy them. At first they were a cheaper price, and
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  Speaker 2: people were like, wow, these chips are.
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  Speaker 3: So much cheaper.
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  Speaker 2: You were paying more per ounce than you were paying
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  Speaker 2: previously for them. But what they were doing is getting
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  Speaker 2: you hooked on this idea of this is the normal
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  Speaker 2: size for the bag of chips. And then when they
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  Speaker 2: went up to their normal regular price, you were like, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's you know, now we're back to the normal price.
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  Speaker 2: But what you didn't notice is you're now buying fewer
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  Speaker 2: chips in the bag. Currently, there are some places that
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  Speaker 2: have those smaller bags on sale for like they went
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  Speaker 2: down to two dollars a bag and now they're like
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  Speaker 2: two fifty a bag, and it's still you're paying more
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  Speaker 2: than you were paying before for the same amount of chips,
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  Speaker 2: but you're getting a smaller bag, and that's why the
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  Speaker 2: price is cheaper. And that's a big part of the
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  Speaker 2: way this whole inflation thing works. You're used to the
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  Speaker 2: size of the bag. Now they're not going to go
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  Speaker 2: back to the old bag. They're not going to go
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  Speaker 2: back to the old bag for the new price. So no,
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  Speaker 2: don't expect this president or any president moving forward to
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  Speaker 2: be able to do that. The dollar menus and fast
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  Speaker 2: food rushts, they're not what they used to be and
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to be. I can remember, and I
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  Speaker 2: remember this vividly because there was a job that I
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  Speaker 2: had for a while where my employer would go in
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  Speaker 2: the mall, would go to Arby's and he would buy
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  Speaker 2: the five roast beef sandwiches for five dollars. The five
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  Speaker 2: roast beef sandwiches for five dollars. Things is so far
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  Speaker 2: in the rear view mirror is now I think you
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  Speaker 2: get four for ten dollars. You don't undo that. As
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  Speaker 2: the president of the United States, you just don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's not how any of this works. And there are
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  Speaker 2: some things that can be course corrected. Yes, the price
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  Speaker 2: of gas has gone down. That's great. That's the start
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  Speaker 2: that helps. We have to tailor our expectations on this.
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  Speaker 2: The important thing is that inflation is not still skyrocketing
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  Speaker 2: and making it significantly worse. That's the other thing that
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  Speaker 2: we have to remember with this. Are they gonna be
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  Speaker 2: able to get the prices down? Look, prices of some
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  Speaker 2: things are down, eggs are down, gases down, there's a
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  Speaker 2: handful of things that are. You know, it's gotten better.
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  Speaker 2: And the left wants you to sit back and say
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  Speaker 2: it's tariffs, it's everything to do with tariffs. But the
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  Speaker 2: reality is we're in this place because of what we
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  Speaker 2: went through the previous years. And it's always fun to
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  Speaker 2: me when you watch a like when the Biden administration
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  Speaker 2: stepped in and they were having to clean up Trump's mess.
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  Speaker 2: They spent a year cleaning up Trump's mess, right, and
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  Speaker 2: then now the Trump administration is cleaning up the Biden
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  Speaker 2: mess and they're going, oh, he didn't fix anything, look
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  Speaker 2: at him, Look how long it's taken him. So look,
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  Speaker 2: both sides are always going to try to take credit
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  Speaker 2: for the other sides victories. They're always gonna blame them
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  Speaker 2: for even their own failures. It's the reality of it.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to see whatever these changes will be
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  Speaker 2: in the coming months. It would be nice to think
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  Speaker 2: we were rolling into Christmas with prices down. It's just
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  Speaker 2: not the way it works. It's and in places like Columbus, Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: we will continue to I'm sorry, but stupidly impose more
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  Speaker 2: self inflicted wounds with our splosts over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: believing that the next one we're going to let it expire.
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  Speaker 2: And it's never going to expire, and that bag of
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  Speaker 2: where you can learn engineering, astronomy, physics, and the careers
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  Speaker 2: in space and STEM fields are booming right now. And
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  Speaker 2: you can learn more about maybe getting your degree on
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  Speaker 2: their website CCSSC dot org. While you're there, also check
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  Speaker 2: out some of their upcoming programs. They've got this incredible
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  Speaker 2: collaboration that they do with the schwob School of Music
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  Speaker 2: from Columbus State University called Music under the Dome. It's
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those things that when you're watching it
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  Speaker 2: in Columbus, Georgia, you think, is this really in Columbus, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a major city attraction that happens
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  Speaker 2: Cola Space Science Center. And the new season of Music
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  Speaker 2: under the Dome. Check out upcoming dates for the shows. Well,
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  Speaker 2: so check out when the next Astronomy Night's coming up
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  Speaker 2: outside the city lights. You don't want any light interference,
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  Speaker 2: and you can do that as well. Upcoming Astronomy Night
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  Speaker 2: events also on their website, it's CCSSC dot org. As
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  Speaker 2: it seems Americans aren't rushing to buy shiny new gadgets.
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  Speaker 2: This holiday season. A recent UGOV survey found that half
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  Speaker 2: of US adults don't plan to purchase any tech at all,
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  Speaker 2: and interest in big ticket items is lukewarm at best.
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  Speaker 2: Nineteen percent are eyeing a new smartphone, only fourteen percent
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  Speaker 2: have a laptop or tablet on their wish list, and
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: thirteen percent hoping for a home appliance like an air
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  Speaker 2: fryer or a vacuum. Come back to that in a second.
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  Speaker 2: Most people seem happy with the tech that they have already.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty nine percent reported zero tech issues with their current gadgets.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you weren't supposed to buy people appliances like
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  Speaker 2: vacuums and air fryers. I thought that was the unwritten rule.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that the rule?
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  Speaker 2: Even if they ask for it, you're not supposed to
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  Speaker 2: do that. I remember one year Jill badly wanted a
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  Speaker 2: new handheld back, and I thought, oh, I'll just give
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  Speaker 2: her one for Christmas, and she's like, don't you dare?
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  Speaker 2: If don't you dare? So I wrapped it up and
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  Speaker 2: gave it to myself for Christmas, and then I let
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  Speaker 2: her have it. And that was well received, much better
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  Speaker 2: received than it would have been if I'd given it
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  Speaker 2: to her for Christmas. I mean, that's why I say
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  Speaker 2: it seems like a slippery slope there. They're asking people
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  Speaker 2: if they need a new appliance like a vacuum. That's
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  Speaker 2: all you're familiar with cuffing season. There's a more toxic
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  Speaker 2: version of cuffing season. It's called sledging. It's the British
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  Speaker 2: term for sledging. And while that's what I hear, I
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  Speaker 2: don't have firsthand knowledge of that. Maybe I'm being punked here,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe they just call it sledging and they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure out why we're over here saying it's sledging.
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  Speaker 2: But apparently it's different than cuffing season because cuffing season
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  Speaker 2: is about finding a cozy winter partner they could potentially
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  Speaker 2: turn into a spring and summer and year long relationship
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  Speaker 2: or more. Sledging though, is when someone gets into a
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  Speaker 2: cuffing season relationship knowing that they will end it with
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  Speaker 2: the person as soon as spring hits, and they don't
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  Speaker 2: tell them in advance. The term comes from pulling a
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  Speaker 2: sled through snow. Basically, you're just dragging someone along with
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  Speaker 2: no intention of having it last. And the reason this
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  Speaker 2: is extra bad is obviously the secrecy in it. One
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  Speaker 2: person thinks they're getting into a serious relationship and the
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  Speaker 2: sledge er, the sledge e doesn't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: The sledge er is the one with all of the
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  Speaker 2: as Andy Griffith would say, all the nasty. So hey,
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  Speaker 2: have you heard about Grinch spaghetti? Apparently this is something
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  Speaker 2: that has gone viral on social media. You basically take
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  Speaker 2: your spaghetti and you add green food coloring to it,
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  Speaker 2: and then you basically get some Doctor Seuss looking spaghetti.
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  Speaker 2: The creators on social media having fun with it where
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  Speaker 2: they are adding heart shaped meatballs because the Grinch's heart
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  Speaker 2: grew three sizes, using Alfredo sauce, adding green veggies. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of an interesting idea. But you know, we're in
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  Speaker 2: this trend now where they're avoiding some of the food coloring.
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  Speaker 2: So if you start pouring more food coloring into your food,
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  Speaker 2: that's defeating the purpose, isn't it right? How you like
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  Speaker 2: your hot chocolate?
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  Speaker 3: Do you like it with beef?
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  Speaker 2: There's a trendy La market you were wand I guess
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  Speaker 2: where they've released their spicy bone broth hot chocolate. The
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  Speaker 2: drink is a mixed of fond regeneratives. Regeneratives, I said it, right,
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  Speaker 2: I just mumbled it. Ginger and cayenne, beef, bone broth
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  Speaker 2: with coconut milk, and then all the things that make
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  Speaker 2: your cocoa wonderful, cinnamon, cayenne and all that stuff, touch
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  Speaker 2: of maple syrup. And there's a mostly positive response to
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  Speaker 2: this on social media. But yeah, I mean, typically you
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  Speaker 2: tell me you're going to add beef to something I'm
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  Speaker 2: in I don't know about with my hot chocolate, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really seem doesn't seem the thing for me. It's just
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  Speaker 2: not jumping off the page at me.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Another annual tradition, as we look at the breakdown of
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  Speaker 2: what it would cost you to actually give all the
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  Speaker 2: gifts of the twelve days of Christmas. Each year, according
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  Speaker 2: to the PNC Christmas Price Index, cost of the gifts
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  Speaker 2: have reached fifty and seventy six dollars and twelve sense.
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  Speaker 2: And here is the breakdown. Now, I always forget that
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  Speaker 2: because some of the people in the song are people.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the gifts, I should say are humans. That's
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  Speaker 2: where it kind of gets pricier than golden rings. But
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  Speaker 2: there's also some birds in here that are more.
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  Speaker 3: Expensive than people.
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  Speaker 2: Just some of the more standouts the partridge in the
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  Speaker 2: pear tree for one hundred and twenty dollars, Turtle doves
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  Speaker 2: at seven point fifty, the Golden Ring sixteen forty nine.
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  Speaker 2: If you were wondering, how about the Seven Swans of
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  Speaker 2: swimming thirteen thousand dollars? Did I say sixteen sixteen hundred?
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  Speaker 2: I guess, but yeah, you get way up there with
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: the seven Swans of swimming. Now, this is what's interesting
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  Speaker 2: to me. Seven swans thirteen thousand dollars. Eight maids of
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  Speaker 2: milking fifty eight bucks. I think they're being undersold. They
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  Speaker 2: have a skill. Nine ladies dancing is eighty eight hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Ten lords a leaping is where your real price really
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  Speaker 2: goes up at sixteen almost seventeen grand. So that'll do
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