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this entire show came from a single Facebook post so I happen to be on a different platform

and I saw an advertisement when I'll show you in a little bit.

And it was for guns about 1971 and they had the prices.

And you could buy things like, I'm going off of my head here because I don't have the

ad in front of me, but I think a, like a Winchester 3030, just as one example in this ad, was like

80 bucks. And some of the people that saw the post, both there and on X, said, but wait a minute, when you do the calculations for inflation, it's about the same price.

Can anybody there in the live stream chat? There's only about 20 people as they continue to pour in a little out of time.

Once you start, the notices go out, people show up.

Anybody in there tell me why that's like not surprising at all that an item that cost more today compared to the time in the past would actually be pretty close to equal to inflation?

Is it because that's how inflation works?

Is that because the number is actually consistent with some level or degree of it?

In fact, some people said, you know what, Jack, when you really look at it, if you bought a Mossburg

shotgun on sale, it actually costs less today relative to inflation. Really?

So that led me to realize something. That in spite of doing this now, for 17 and a half years I've been doing this show roughly, it'll be, I guess the 20th will be 17 and a half years exactly. No, January 20th will be 17 and a half years exactly. So by next month, it'll be 17 and a half years. By this summer, I'll be doing this for 18 years. On some level, I guess I failed. Not horribly or anything. I mean, the fact that people in my audience, people that follow me would do the math, I applaud that.

And I'm being serious.

I'm not picking on anybody here.

But if you only look at inflation as a calculation based on numbers only, and you're using the dollar, which as we discussed in an episode last week, is like changing an inch, shrinking the inch,

and still calling 12 inches a foot, and then say in the house, the size of the houses didn't shrink

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