10.27: HalloWeek - Hour 3

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So one of the news updates you heard there and

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from Jack Crumley, is about the Hardin County GOP under
investigation for.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
A racist AI post. So a lot to unpack here.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
But when you hear the apology and someone claiming they
did not understand the racism they were sharing within something
they shared, I mean only that individual would would know
if that's true or not.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
But I'm I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
To not have any awareness, or maybe you did have awareness,
but you didn't care. It says a lot. But here's
the story. The Republican Party. They're investigating the Harden County
Republican Party after a the Republican Party of Kentucky, I
should say, they're investigating the Harden County Republican Party after
social media post surfaced showing former President Barack Obama and

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FIRS First Lady Michelle Obama depicted as apes in an
AI generated video. I mean almost speechless to see that
we have in twenty twenty five people doing that, creating
said content, sharing it, and then the old well, sorry,
didn't I regret sharing it? Didn't know I was. I

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don't support you know, this type of stuff, didn't mean
to offend. Sorry if offended. And I'm paraphrasing because I
don't have any direct quote in front of me, but
I mean just vile. That's the word that was used
to describe it. That I think is the way most
people probably see it. But vile and reprehensible is how

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it's being described by those of the Republican Party of Kentucky,
of Kentucky here in the state. But yet it appeared
on the Facebook page for the Harden County GOP, which
again it's not just one person on their individual account.
I mean, it's the actual page for the entity itself.
But it also portrayed other figures Kamala Harris, Joe Biden,

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Gavin Newsom as various different jungle animals. But again, Harden
County GOP chair Bobby Coleman admitted to sharing the video,
saying it was meant to highlight former President Trump's I
guess he's not former, he's current president, but the right
up here mentions the latter, which is odd. But nonetheless,

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they were claiming that they wanted to show the policy
achievements by showing him as line king. But I mean,
I just I'm spinning my wheels here because I'm not
sure how anybody could discuss this as if you're giving well,
you know, I can see how somebody might have not.
I mean, this is just this, this is this is vile.
So the post was later deleted, an apology was stated,

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and the claim is that they did not understand the
underlying racial implications, which I mean, how do you not
see that as a It's just it's it's unbelievable, to
be honest with you. But yeah, this is a quote
from Robert looks like a BENEVOUTI, the chairman of the

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Republican Party of Kentucky, said he plans to take the
harshest action available to us against those involved. Quote, the
Republican Party of Kentucky condemn's hate and all its forms.
The post is vile and reprehensible, and it is directly
averse to all that we stand for as a party
and a nation. We are actively investigating the matter and
will take the harshest action available to us against those

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involved who remained committed to the values of Lincoln and
advancing liberty and prosperity for every American. So yeah, I mean, again,
clearly a really stupid thing to do, but it also
is just very telling, I would say. But anyways, real quick,
the big story is a officer involved shooting that took
place this morning at about sounds like around two am

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is whenever l ANDPD arrived on scene in the Newburgh area.
They found a woman that was shot, and they also
found a man who had a gun. That individual was
asked to drop his gun did not do so. That
led to that person being shot. No officers have been injured,
and the status of the woman that was shot in
the man that was shot by law enforcement. No update
just yet, but our partners at WK why they did

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they wrapped up their six o'clock newscast here was somebody
alive on scene and we'll see if we can get
the latest here to see if there is any real update.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Here morning of an officer involved shooting in Newburg where
two people are in critical condition.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
It happened on the fifty five hundred block of Ridgecrest Road.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Shaquilard's been lying for us all morning, long Shack, what's
the latest, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Kerry Anally's This investigation while underway here in the Newburgh area.
As you just mentioned, two people are in critical condition. Now.
Officers responded to the report of a shooting here just
after two o'clock this morning here on Ridgecrest Road. A
woman was shot. Now, when they arrived, they say that
they saw a man and with a handgun, and after

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trying to tell that man to drop the gun, that man, again,
according to officers, approached officers and that's when one officer
fired at least one gun shot, hitting that individual. Now,
both the man and the woman are in critical condition
at last check. According to investigators, Day rendered aid to

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both of them. As this was unfolding here in the area.
But there is no threat to the public, according to
LLENPD A lot of questions this morning, including what took
place before officers got here. That's why there's still a
busy scene right behind me as they try to piece
together this entire situation, and of course, because you need
to keep you posted on the lay's developments right here

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on WLKY.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Again, that' Shaquille Ord of WLKY. So it sounds as
if the investigation is still ongoing in the status is
critical condition for the man and the woman who both
both have gunshot wounds. All right, let's get to a
quick check of traffic and weather and then coming up
on the other side, ABC Business analyst Jill Slessinger is
going to join us. Looking forward to chatting with her.
I know she's someone you're probably familiar with if you've

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been listening to this program for quite some time. She's
made many appearances with Tony Cruz and looking forward to
having her on again. She's going to join us next,
So stick around right here on News Radio eight forty
whas it is seven sixteen here in news Radio eight
forty whas Coffee and Company with you and we are
fueled by Thornton. So we're now joined by Jill Slessinger,
a business analyst for CBS, who's joining us. And before

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we dive into the latest government report that we got,
let's I guess this with the government shut down, sounds
like this is going to be the only update report
we get until the shutdown ends.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
You bet, ja, I mean, it is wild to be
flying blind about what's actually happening in the economy. I
guess we just have to rely on ourselves. So what
we know is that during the shutdown, all the folks
who gather the data, they're furloughed. But a slew of
these people got called back just a few weeks ago,
and I think it was because the government realized they

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needed inflation data for the month of September, not just
to tell us that you know, your flooring costs more,
but because the Social Security Administration needs that information to
figure out whether or not people get or raised next
year who are Social Security recipients. They need to know
what is the inflation rate for the three months of

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the third quarter in order to say whether you'll get
a cost of living adjustment for next year. So that's
why we got this report, which was delayed by about
ten days, and the report basically means that the seventy
five million Americans who receive Social Security benefits are going
to get an additional two point eight percent starting in January.

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Does that seem like good or bad? Two point eight
What do you think about that?

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Man? I would say that that sounds as expected, but
I could be totally wrong. I'm not somebody in this
in the situation relying on that just yet. But what's
been the reaction for those that have learned that news,
and certainly they'll be impacted by regardless.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Well, let me give you the sounder for this. You're ready, Yah, whah,
that's it because it's it's on average fifty six bucks
a month.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
I know whatever.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Six hundred and seventy dollars is not nothing. But the
problem is that a lot of people who receive Social
Security they are actually on fixed incomes. Right, sure, forty
percent of Americans say this is what they're relying on,
just Social Security. And what happens is you get that increase,
but it is often off set and it will be
offset by the additional cost of healthcare. And so when

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you get a raise on one side if the expenses
on the other side are rising, doesn't feel so good.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, it's not really raise, right.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, it's kind of like, hey, I'm treading water if
you're lucky as opposed to drowning. So I think that
there's something important about this report also of the social
that the CPI report, and that is that every year
the Social Security Administration will look at the amount of
money you can receive you can earn when you're receiving

(09:27):
Social Security benefits, so you can claim social Security benefits
early at age sixty two. A lot of people do
this because they think that social Security system is going broke,
or I can make more money with that money, or
they just need the money right, so they'll claim as
early as age sixty two, even though that means a
reduction of about twenty five percent lifelong. But here's the

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other part of it. When you claim early and you
say I want to work while I'm receiving Social Security benefits,
there's a limit to how much you can earn, and
for twenty twenty six that limit is twenty three four
hundred and eighty bucks. So if you thought I'm going
to claim early and still get a little side hustle
on the job. On the side, it doesn't work out
so well. You really can't make a lot of money
before you have to forfeit some of your Social Security benefits.

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If you make more than that, let's call it about
twenty three five hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
So it's tough. It is tough.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I would be very careful before claiming early if I
were looking at Social Security.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
So how has that number changed over the years as
far as the amount of money you can you can
ear and while while still collecting Social Security?

Speaker 3 (10:29):
You know, it's tested with inflation, so it goes up
with the inflation rate every year. So it's really like,
let's say, over the last decade or so, the cost
of living adjustment has average about three point one percent.
Same for that limit. That limit goes up by the
exact amount, so you know, look, I'm not saying you
shouldn't take the money if you need it, if you
have no other options and social Security is it, then

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you take it when you need it. But if there's
some way that you can make it to your full
retirement age, which is usual sixty seven if you're born
after nineteen sixty sixty six, if before that, if you
can wait till that full retirement age. Not only will
you get a bigger benefit, but you'll have no rules
about whether you can work or not. And also, if

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you've got a spouse who's claiming on your record, like
I have a non working spouse and that person's going
to claim half of my benefit, that's a bigger benefit
for your spouse. So if possible, we really would encourage
people to wait until their full retirement age to claim
Social Security benefits.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
It makes total sense. Is there data that shows that
that is actually happening. I mean, I know some folks
just on my end that clearly have said, hey, I'm
going to hit pause, not even think about retirement, just
because it's just not as doable right now.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
You know, I got to tell you something. The data
show that people are taking the money sooner than we
would like. And I'm not sure why I think that
there is this real misperception that Social Security is going broke.
That's not what's happening. That is not at all what's happening.
What's happening is the demographics of this country are changing,

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and so right now it's not like you get zero dollars.
It's if Congress does nothing to address the Social Security
administration and change the tax structure. If they do nothing,
then the amount of money that we are promising to
people who are retiring will be reduced by about, let's
just call it, about twenty percent. So if you were

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going to get one hundred bucks a month, it would
be eighty bucks a month. But that doesn't argue for
taking your benefit early, because it doesn't stop that the
cuts will happen with If there is no action, every
single person, whether you claim early or you wait, will
get cut. So don't you want to try to have
the biggest number possible if that were to happen, And
don't you want the biggest number possible for your Social

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Security so that you get the largest impact of the
cost of living adjustment. There are very few parts of
our lives that are inflation adjusted. Social Security is one
of those parts of our lives.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Very good stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Thank you so much for your time, Jill, Looking forward
to doing again next week.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
All right, take care, Really good stuff.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Very informative from Jill Slessinger who is an ABC business analyst.
Looking forward to having her in the mix each and
every week. And I'm sure we're going to get good information.
Just like that, especially good information for a lot of
our listeners out there, So I certainly appreciate her perspective
and appreciate her time. Let's get to a quick update
of traffic and weather. We've also got another sports update
coming your way right here on news Radio eight forty whas.

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It is seven thirty five here at news Radio eight
forty whas coffee and company with you. Thank you for
hanging out with us getting your week started. So yesterday,
big news out of college football as Brian Kelly fired
as the coach at LSU. And I wouldn't be able
to tell you which, and it really it comes down
to preference. There's no way to know what is the

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best job in a certain industry, but I would say
Lshue's probably top three regardless of who you ask, when
it comes to the best jobs in that sport. And
they'll have they'll have a lot of interest, I'm sure.
But with all these big jobs opening up, I mean somebody,
in fact, probably more than one program, John, They're going

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to hire a coach that their fan base is going
to is going to revolt, right, I mean, I just
don't understand there's not enough names for these programs to
get a guy to where their fan base and even
maybe those decision makers feel like they got a really
good coach replacing Brian Kelly and James Franklin were objectively
really really good at their jobs when it comes to,
you know, winning and losing.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
And I think when the when LSU put out the
statement that it was the very beginning of the statement
they released after they let go of Brian Kelly had
said they expected multiple SEC and national championships from him,
from somebody who had never done that already at Notre Dame,
especially the national championship part. To expect any head coach
that's not Nick Saban or even a Kirby Smart to

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win multiple national championships or even conference championships regularly, that's
just not going to happen this day and agent college football.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I don't understand how there's just this.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean again, I ellis Huo's the kind of program
and I guess maybe Penn State is as well, But
they just assume that there's no reason they shouldn't be
every year right there with a chance to win it all.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
And I and geez its almost like Penn State was
there just last year. Yeah, And they have a little
bit of a slip up and all of a sudden
because Penn State can't win quote unquote the big one,
which again, there is something to that sure.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
I mean, in fact, Brian Kelly and James Franklin, I
think they kind of have that. They're very good, they're
just not elite enough to get over that hump to
where they are Nick Saban caliber or I mean Kirby Smart.
I guess who now has a couple of them. And
that's I mean, good luck finding somebody that that is
what you're looking for. And also, I mean, to me,
it screams. Do you realize like you could go hire

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somebody who's nowhere near as good as James Franklin or
Brian Kelly.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
I think you're gonna see a lot of and a
lot of it's due to the amount of jobs that
are open. You're gonna see a lot of bigger time jobs.
Maybe not the biggest time jobs like LSU or Penn State,
but a lot of these mid tier jobs. You're gonna
see them going after guys who maybe you didn't he
hadn't heard much of to kind of take a risk
and see if you end up getting some results. Kind
of like with what Indiana's gotten with Kurt Signetti, and

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maybe you'll get something similar to that. Maybe you won't,
but you're gonna see more schools doing stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
I feel yeck, I think the way.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
I mean again, I'm sure Nick Saban's gonna get offered
one of these jobs if he hasn't already, And I
wouldn't be shocked if LSU comes back to him.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
He've coached there before.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
I don't think he will return to college, but lsh's
the kind of job. And actually, don't dispute this. They
could offer the job to anybody and get turned down
and it won't be a well wow, look how they've fallen,
because at the end of the day, it's undisputable as
one of the best. Same thing with Alabama when they
offered it to Dan Lanning and he didn't want it.

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I mean, it seemed kind of odd that you that
anybody would turn down Alabama, But also consider taking over
for Nick Saban and trying to fill those shoes. So
I h when you look at all of these, I mean,
right now, here are jobs that are open.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
And it's not.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Even we haven't even hit November yet. You've got LSU,
Penn State, Florida.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Who else am I? Oklahoma State, Virginia Tech?

Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yeah, throw UCLA in there, or they don't hire Jerry newhisl.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Or something Arkansas. And then now there's belief that that
Texas is going to open.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
And that's a lot of due to Steve Sarkisian flirting
with the NFL.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
I think I saw.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
I think I think he's probably realizing that there's a
lot that goes into being the coach at Texas that
he just doesn't want to be a part of. Like
it's it's I mean, you're the face of your state.
I mean, Texas Longhorn football is a big deal. And
I also wonder if I mean again, I'm probably just
maybe wanting to connect some dots that would lead to

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some drama. But you you've watched enough of Arch Manning.
Would it surprise you if he realizes he does and
have a good quarterback. But yet the powers that be
behind him are making it making sure that you don't
bench a Manning because he's a Manning. I mean, I'm
not to say that's why he would up and leave,
but Texas is the kind of job that probably has
so many people behind the scenes that are very influential

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with the big money that they spend and whatnot to
where you got to deal with and every big job
has to deal with the big boosters, especially now in
the world where you realize so much on their money
to go buy your roster. But at Texas I can
just see that three times worse than anywhere else.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
What's funny is that the same thing that makes these
big time jobs attractive to some coaches is what makes
them unattractive to a different group of coaches that don't
want to be in that spot. So personal pressureence, and
I think that's that's why it's harder to pull some
of the big names in power forward, Because if you're
in a comfortable situation and a job with less pressure,

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why go somewhere where if you're not meeting the craziest
of expectations each and every year, you'll be run out
of town in a couple of seasons, or you can
just ride it out you're at and retire happily. Maybe
not retire, but you know, spend ten fifteen seasons with
with your with your program and get get good results
and be treated like a king there.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
If you're not looking to get out and you've got
a good situation. That's where I feel like you would
look at a job like I mean the two jobs
to me that scream, you know, be careful what you
wish for, because yes, nobody would offer that. You don't
have great resources and you can't pay top dollar. But
you know, if you're Lane Kiffin, why would you look
at Florida as a better situation for you?

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Look at Florida's you know, their overall disastrous athletic department
when it comes to decisions made by the by their
athletic director. And same thing with LSU. To be honest
with you, again, it's a great job, wouldn't. I mean,
it's the job that whoever takes it, no matter who
it is, nobody like, no matter who takes it, you're
not going to be shocked.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Like, wow, could you believe they took the LSU job? No,
it's LSU.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
But also anybody turning it down that is in a
good spot like a Lane Kiffin. I mean it makes
sense to be honest with you, Listen to this number
right now, the amount of mon that college football teams
are on the hook to pay out coaches who will
no longer coach another game for them one hundred and
sixty nine million dollars in buyouts this season. Brian Kelly's

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his fifty three million, forty nine point seven million for
James Franklin, Billy Napier twenty one point two, Mike Gundy
fifteen million, Sam Pittman ten million. I mean, and there
will be more, yes, absolutely, maybe Gus Malsan at Auburn,
Maybe Mark Stoops.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah. I don't know though. The more.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
I I mean, if Kentucky makes a change, it comes
down to these two things. It's too expensive not to
make a change because of how much you're going to
lose out on football money, yeah, or it's we don't
care how competitive the market is right now, anybody but
this guy. And I just have a hard time seeing

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Mitch Barnhardt make that decision, given the fact that he
he's going to be loyal to Stoops until he can anymore.
And I don't really know what that threshold is as
far as the can't do it anymore for him, But
we'll see.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
I mean, imagine, I mean.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
One hundred and sixty one million being paid collectively for
people not to work. It's insanity, all right, let's get
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So again we are fueled by Thornton. So this is
something that doesn't really surprise me. But I forgot that
the Treasury Department stop producing pennies back in May. So
there is a penny shortage that is hitting retailers across

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the country because again they don't pennies are not being
produced anymore, and the final batch of pennies from the
US Mint rolled out in August. And you've got retailers,
big stores, in fact, Kroger one of them home Depot
as well. They're feeling the pinch. So the American Banking
Association says there's still about two hundred and fifty billion

(22:24):
pennies out there. The problem is they're just they're just
not circulating stores, aren't. I mean, stores don't have many
of them anymore, stores don't have access to new ones anymore.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
And I mean, I totally get it. We know the
value of a.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Penny right one cent, But I mean, I mean, is
this gonna make me sound stupider than I sound in general?
Like I throw away pennies? I mean, is that stupid?
It probably is, yeah, But like I mean, what am
I gonna do with it? I know, if it's just
gonna sit around and take up space in my cup
holder or in my house. And I mean when we
save Chaine now, because we do it every year when

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we go on vacation every year, we will go empty
out a tray that has a lot of nick quarters,
nickels down, sometimes one dollar bills.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Actually, just if we've got a.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Couple that are laying around, and usually it ends up
giving us, you know, a little bit of money to
just have as an extra, you know, vacation spend. But
like pennies, we don't I mean, I don't do anything
with pennies. So some stores are are rounding totals to
the customer's benefit, and there's others that are just skipping
exact change altogether. So this shortage is prompting stores to

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encourage their customers to use up the loose change they
just got lying around because they need it, and I
mean it makes sense. But whenever they announced they were
going to no longer produce pennies, I mean I was thinking, yeah,
I mean, less of them that are just in my way.
Like whenever I get changed back and it there's pennies,

(23:56):
I usually just put it in that little hy not
rarely pay cash for anything, but I'll just leave it
in like that little like they leave pennies there for
people to use if they don't have exact change. So, yeah,
when's the last time you used a penny to pay
for something?

Speaker 5 (24:09):
John, I could not tell you. It would have had
to have been if I was trying to get exact
change for something at a restaurant, a fast food restaurant.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
That's my thing is like if if you are looking,
nobody's using it. Like, nobody's using that as the currency
to purchase something that is more than you know, Like
nobody's using that to purchase something as the only type
of currency they have, right, Like, if you've got a
total that's five dollars and four cents, you give them
a five. You might have four pennies in your car somewhere,

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Like I feel like that's the most common way people
use pennies now, but I could be wrong. So again,
big retailers want you to find your loose, change your
pennies and go give them business with that because they
need it. All right, let's get to it. Update of
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