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Wherever, you're absolutely right, ladies and gentlemen. You know what? I love this when I do, because i don't do this before i go on the air

so i can have a natural reaction to the headlines of the day i check other stories but i don't

look at the headlines and this is one of the reasons i don't look at the headlines

inflation at 3.1 percent reflects stubborn pricing pressure in other words you're going to lose even more money.

Isn't that great news?

What does that mean?

Stubborn pricing pressure.

I agree with you.

I agree with you.

What the hell does that mean?

Inflation cooled last month while underlying prices ticked up slightly more than expected.

So in other words, what they're saying is it didn't kick up as quickly as they thought. It kicked up and then dropped back down and things are going to cost you more. Well, I will tell you, and I can't say you would know the people that we went to dinner with last night, but I don't want to drag them into it because it's about dough. Went to a very nice restaurant. And they had, I think, a total of

probably two bottles of wine with their dinner. There were six of us had a really, really nice

dinner. So I said, well, let me just get this. And they said, no, no, no, well, there were three

guys and three women and two, three families right so I said let me just get

they said no no let's just split it up am I ever glad we split it the dinner for six

people there were a couple bottles of wine and I don't you know drink wine anymore so I

don't know what they ordered but it must have been pretty good because the bill was $1,100.

Yeah,

that's definitely that we're going to split this situation.

Let me tell you right now.

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