The Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

He is Armstrong and Getty.

You're listening to the best of the Armstrong and Getty show.

So I came across it as I thought it was interesting and revealing and there is a tendency to

lie in the past that everything was fine and great and better and I wish we were in the

past and also talk about how hard the present is and all and a lot of it is silly.

It's as insipid as the Barbara Streisand song was about memories and those two painful

to remember we simply choose to forget there is a lot of that.

There is a hazy glow around the past to a large extent.

So these economics websites came out and I think it was one of our beloved listeners

who alerted me to this.

I don't recall specifically but 24 charts that show we're living better mostly than our

parents and the first one which I've been just annoying Jack with is that we're eating

much more fresh fruit.

There's much more available.

Oh, okay, there's more available.

I don't know if we're eating it.

What we are eating it.

Absolutely.

Oh, the statistics are unmistakable.

Now I have been harassing Jack and threatening him on behalf of his colon for decades now

because for the longest time you ate no fruit and vegetables.

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