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From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center

We are in a tight spot here financially ladies and germs as the more economic news continues to make us all really excited and how expensive everything is our the moody's put out a statement over the weekend that it's roughly $450

$450 a month extra for the average family right now in America so it's kind of like you went out and bought a car and just got a car payment for buying the same amount of stuff that you had been buying previously you're now spending about $500 extra month that's if you've been noticing to buy it you don't get to drive it rather but you should be grateful for that because you couldn't afford the gas anyway

that's a good way to look at it but you know if you decided to go out and buy a car and take on a $500 a month payment you'd notice I'm going to have to budget a little differently

well that has happened without getting the car just because of inflation whoo

coming up how to tell if you're actually addicted to your smartphone I will stay tuned I have to stay tuned so so in the contract but yeah I'm looking forward to bringing this to you I think it could be a moment of reckoning friends

how about if I know that I am do I still have to sit through the quiz yes absolutely and feel bad about yourself clearly speaking of the inflation etc I love this headline

food prices to keep going up as cost surge craft Tyson and McDonald's owners literally the owners of the company say higher fuel labor and ingredient expenses are driving inflation

I never thought this would happen in my life and I've been somewhat fortunate in terms of you know finding a job and all that sort of stuff and just thought those days were behind me but I'm at the grocery store now regularly I think do I do I want to buy this like a cannon nuts my kid likes the mixed nuts I grab a cannon it's like $11 or something like that do I do we need that I don't think we need that

they fall from the trees stakes forget it as we've talked about now I don't buy stakes up I hammer and hammer is getting to expensive I think I'm going to be like my parents generation

and start buying liver go over to that weird part of the butcher area and buy the parts of the animal nobody wants to eat exactly hamburgers the new stake in raccoon is the new hamburger just live with it from farmers and factories to grocery stores and restaurants many executives say they are experiencing

jaw dropping cost increases for labor packaging ingredients and transportation the rise of fuel prices is making it more expensive to produce and sell food food retailers and restaurants have said they're passing along some wholesale price increases and additional cost to consumers and more to come but there is good news yeah

I lied there is no goodness I I did the right honorable thing in a situation the other night where I offered to pay for a meal there's four people and and when I got the pill I was like what that's what it costs for us to eat here oh my God

it's just it's extraordinary am I buying the restaurant or just the meal I'm confused here I think you have you gave me the wrong ticket this is for the party of 15 over there there's just four of us

you know this next couple of sentences is going to drive us all right into the alright already you know emotional space but Russia's invasion of Ukraine when the world's top grain producing

agents is lifting the price of other pantry tables cooking all is in livestock feed for meat bad weather affecting other big crop producing countries including in parts of South America Australian India is fueling the

grow global crunch to all right in recent months more people have switched buying less expensive brands or cuts of meat at grocery stores

eating out at restaurants less often industry executive said yeah man if you're not eating out less I don't know if you I don't know what your situation is but yeah I'm definitely

eating out less the idea of just a throw away let's get a pizza no no more so in other fair does your computer have a soul

if it's a really good one it might according to a senior software engineer at Google who's been suspended for publicly claiming that the tech giants

and artificial intelligence program it's the lamb the language model for dialogue applications he has claimed it has become sentient

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