Good morning. It is Tuesday, October 17th. It is six minutes after 11. You're

listening to Kendall and Casey on 93 W I B C Rob Kendall has taken the day off

and in his place. Ethan Hatcher gracing us with his presence. Thank you for

joining me today, Ethan. I am always thrilled to be in the studio with you,

Casey. I appreciate you. I hope I'm not the only one who says that to you today.

Hey, the feelings mutual. I also appreciate you for listening today. Hey, it's

free. Do you know the radio's free? It's one of the only last things that's free to

you. The listener is broadcast TV. You can still put up the rabbit ears. You don't

have to pay for subscription to cable or one of those streaming services. The

things that are free are few and far between these days, aren't they? Uh,

binomics. You want to talk about that? By inflation. It's inflation. Well, I mean,

it's crushing Americans around the nation and the actual inflation index is

somewhat deceptively calculated because it doesn't drill down on the things that

people are most affected by car prices, home prices, food prices, fuel prices,

all of them generally outpacing the overall indexed price of inflation. In fact,

there's a tick tocker who's been going around over the last year and he has video

and photographic evidence of prices from last year to this year, just one year.

So that's an inside by administration comparison of how out of control

inflation is and some of the staple foods at your Costco are nearly doubling in price.

I saw that. That's a problem. The guy was in Costco and he was showing pictures of

stuff he bought last year and the increase and he was saying people keep saying that,

you know, oh, it's up 10%, 15% and he's showing more like 50% in some cases.

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