[00:00:06] You're listening to the Kate Dalley Show. Our problem is that we just want to follow Jesus, but we also want to slap people. Dilemmas. The show starts now. Together these world-leading technology giants are announcing the formation of Stargate. So put that name down in your books because I think you're going to hear a lot about it in the future.
[00:00:31] A new American company that will invest $500 billion at least in AI infrastructure in the United States and very quickly moving very rapidly, creating over 100,000 American jobs almost immediately. I'm going to help a lot through emergency declarations because we have an emergency. We have to get this stuff built. The data centers are actually under construction. The first of them are under construction in Texas. Each building is a half a million square feet.
[00:01:01] There are 10 buildings currently being built, but that will expand to 20. To give you an idea, maybe the most charismatic and the one that I think touches us all is electronic health records. As this technology progresses, we will see diseases get cured at an unprecedented rate.
[00:01:19] Then beyond that, once we gene sequence, once we gene sequence that cancer tumor, you can then vaccinate the person, design a vaccine for every individual person to vaccinate them against that cancer. And you can make that vaccine, that mRNA vaccine, you can make that robotically again using AI in about 48 hours.
[00:01:48] I love Jesus, but I really want to slap people. So that was Larry Ellison. He's a little weird, right? Not a little, a lot. Larry Ellison, Sam Altman, and Masa all going in with a lot of emergency orders to come. What? What? $500 billion for data centers.
[00:02:11] All of that after Operation Warp Speed, I hope the public outcry comes. I hope people are not okay with this. I hope that people can see through the fact that pharma will never allow any cures. They're too busy giving us cancer with all of their shots.
[00:02:32] So I am shocked to hear Ellison talk about this new AI, which it is not AI, AI cancer shot that's actually going to cure it now. So don't mind that we're building all the data centers, which will be part of digital tyranny ousting of the dollar. Don't look at that because just be sold on the fact that we're going to cure cancer. I don't even have words. I don't even know what to... Is anyone outraged out there?
[00:03:01] Melissa Smith, how are you, Midwest Melissa? I know you're outraged because I can't imagine that you wouldn't be. Oh my gosh. No kidding. At this point, who trusts them to tell us the truth about it? More vaccines. That's all they got. Everything is a shot. And not just vaccines, but mRNA vaccines. More of those. Which are not vaccines. It's gene... It's not therapy. It's gene disruption. It's gene control. Yes.
[00:03:30] I can't imagine anyone being stupid enough to fall for this. But where's the public outcry? It's like, you know, this is my prayer today. You know, dear Lord, please, please make sure that I am never so gung-ho and so in love with government that I think whatever's happening is just fine. This is not okay. This is evil. And what's about to transpire in this whole little plan that they've hatched. I can't imagine that people don't have an outcry.
[00:04:00] I'm not seeing outcry on social media. Although I have heard that there are many people that are against this and see through it, let's hope. Especially when they are experiencing so much turbo cancer and death and everything else in their families from the last round of shots. I can't imagine we would launch into this. We just don't know why everyone has turbo cancer. Yeah. It's just a mystery. The answer is clueless about why everyone has turbo cancer. I'm clueless.
[00:04:29] I just can't explain it. I can't understand where it all came from. Right. One in two has cancer. I bet you and I could come up with about 10 reasons why people have turbo cancer. Everything from what they're spraying on us in the air to what they're feeding us in our food to what they're injecting in our bodies. The stress levels we're having to deal with. All of that is contributing to turbo cancer. But the worst of it, the worst of it all is what they injected everybody with. I know.
[00:04:57] And there's no, I don't hear remorse for that. I'm not hearing, all I hear is, and here's another shot. You get a set of Ginsu knives and another shot, American public. I'm like, are you kidding me with this? I believe this to be Trump's absolute Achilles heel. Every hero has a vulnerability and this is his. It, he thinks that, you know, during that announcement, if I'm not mistaken,
[00:05:24] I believe he was crowing again about Operation Warp Speed. And I'm like, you know what? Operation Warp Speed was a very bad thing. It rushed the country into taking untested, untried, unproven, lied about shots before anybody should have done that. And he doesn't seem to have taken notice of that. I'm just perplexed. I know that, I know people want a hero.
[00:05:52] I know they want to wrap themselves up in flag scarves and hats and T-shirts and go, we're winning. We're not winning right now in that way because of the fact that we're not getting any closer to the Constitution. We're not reducing, we're not reducing government power in this. And we're going to be, they're going to sell us on this. And it's a total front. It's a total front. This is not what it seems. But that's all I have to say. That's my, my gut feeling on it anyway. Like I said, I think this is Trump's Achilles heel. He doesn't see it.
[00:06:22] He doesn't get it. And he's not the only one that doesn't get it. There's a lot of people I know still that are just like, well, you know, I didn't get COVID as bad because I got 15 shots. I didn't get the flu or the sniffles as well. I swear to you. Well, now you have turbo cancer and you can't figure out. Now you have some kind of weird cardiac problem and your doctor can't figure out why you have it. Now you have some other bizarre illness. You have cancer in, you know, 15 places in your body all at once. And you don't know why.
[00:06:51] Really? Seriously? Where have you been? What rock are you living under? My goal for January is just to make it through every day of January. I don't have any other goal right now. January is 700 days long. It's like a big roller coaster. I'm really happy he let Ross out. I'm really happy he let the J6ers out. Yes, I'm really frustrated as hell on this one. And I'm just I'm stunned that it was one day and we are already talking another vaccine as the cure all.
[00:07:21] I you and they're not vaccines. I shouldn't keep saying that these shots. I just can't imagine. There is also some concern about. Well, yes, it's great. He pulled us out of the World Health Organization, but he did not pull us completely out from underneath the pandemic. Well, agreements that were signed or the U.N. And there's a lot more funding we do. I'll do it. I have a show ready for that at the end of the week this week. But yeah, yes.
[00:07:50] There's so much more to say about that. Truthfully, you know, I like a lot of things that Trump is doing right now. I I wish he was more constitutionally minded. But I get some of where this is and why he's done it. But that doesn't mean we go to sleep and let him do whatever.
[00:08:11] You know, you can like a few of the things the king does and still not approve of, you know, the soldiers that come to be quartered in your house. Yes. And I and my my sincere hope, everyone, honestly, this is from my heart, is that we don't attribute what the deep state goals are and what the deep state coordinates and does and wants done and mix that with God's doing it.
[00:08:38] Please, please, please, please, for the love of Pete. I if I see one more claim that everything, anything that happens in the next four years is God ordained. I don't even know what I'm going to do at this point because I can't handle it. It's just it's not true. It is not true. We have to be critical of what is going on in our lives and what is happening to our liberty. And I think we're we are cheering on the building of our own imprisonment. And this is not OK on any level.
[00:09:08] Yeah, not OK. Theologically, I think Satan can be a liar. And and one of the ways he lies to us is he tells us some truth on the way there for the big lie at the end. I know. And the other thing I think maybe our own personal connection to God is very important right now because we know that these are going to be difficult times. Get ready. Batten down the hatches just because Trump is there does not mean that all our problems have gone away. So true. Does not so true.
[00:09:37] OK, talk to me about Kroger. All right. Well, this kind of fits in with the general theme of the big tech stuff. Right. Kroger has just announced that. Well, actually, they announced it at the end of last year that they're going to go to or they want to go to. They want to go to electronic shelf labels.
[00:10:02] So instead of having like a barcode price tag on something or even on the shelf, that like if you go into some department stores, you'll see those a little electronic labels. Mm hmm. They will have those on on the shelf with each product that you pick up. Yeah. So that sounds like and the way they're selling this is, oh, it'll be so great. We can tie this all to inventory management.
[00:10:31] We don't have to have as much paper and printout and printer ink and all that stuff. We don't have to hire a million people to change the prices on everything. We can monitor like when when the inventory is at a certain level, the little tag will flash and we'll know that we have to go back in the stock room and restock that. Oh, it's all going to be fabulous because it's always sold that way. Right. Right. It's always sold that way.
[00:10:57] But here are some of the capabilities that are raising some concern. OK. Number one, they can change those prices instantly. Multiple times through the day. Mm hmm. So if, for example, the weatherman here in my part of the country, if the weatherman comes on and says we're going to have a big snow event and everybody runs down to the store to buy bread and milk. The store can bump up the price of bread and milk instantaneously. Yeah.
[00:11:27] Before you even get to the store. Right. Milk that was selling for two dollars a gallon can now be four dollars a gallon before you get there. Yeah. The other thing that's really alarming. Now, the grocery stores, by the way, have said, oh, that's never our intent. We would never do that. Well, yeah. Not now. I believe not in the next six weeks. Totally believe them. Uh huh. Yeah.
[00:11:52] The other thing that Kroger has said is they want to gather data. They can Bluetooth this information and they can gather data on you individually as you walk through the store about what you are purchasing, what you are looking at, how long you are taking. And OK, now that's creepy enough, right? Right. Like, I don't think they need to know that.
[00:12:23] But how would you sell that, Kate, in the positive way? Well, we're going to be able to market discount coupons so much more effectively. It will relieve us of theft so we can pass that savings on to you as well. Oh, yeah. It's always a cherry on top. We're going to come right back more with Midwest Melissa when I come back. Oh, they'll have all kinds of ways to sell it. You're right. Be right back with Melissa on the Kate Daly Show. Kate Daly Radio dot com.
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[00:14:24] OK, so I actually asked a couple of years ago why my particular Walmart was cordoned off like a third of the store. And they said, oh, yeah, we're bringing in these digital digital shelves, robotic arms that grab the products. It's very, very high tech. And I went, oh, geez, because, you know, the writings on the wall. Right. And how do you buy groceries if you're not part of the system? Right. If you're not part of this electronic system.
[00:14:52] So it's kind of a scary, scary world we're climbing into in the next few years and what they're going to do. Well, Croker's electronic shelf display or electronic shelf labeling system is called they call it edge enhanced display for for the grocery environment. Mm hmm.
[00:15:12] And this is the part of the system where they place cameras on the shelves to use facial recognition to determine information, including your age, your gender, so that they can push personalized advertisements and offers to you. Minority report. I remember a scene. Remember the scene? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you're. So you want you're walking by and they're going to play an ad just for you. Right.
[00:15:41] Because they they care about what you eat, too. Right. So two senators have addressed Croker. It's I hate to announce who they are because it's Elizabeth Warren and Robert P. Casey. And I generally don't agree with much that Elizabeth Warren has to say. But in this particular instance, I think she's asking some really smart questions. Really? So here are the questions that they want Kroger to talk about.
[00:16:09] They call it dynamic pricing, meaning they can change the price in the store at a you know, in a second. They can change all kinds of prices. Mm hmm. What is the average percentage change in price of the items that are using that system over the last six months? Because Kroger saying, oh, this is spring prices down. Yeah. So Elizabeth Warren is saying, well, have you lowered prices? Well, what's going on? The next thing.
[00:16:35] Has Kroger ever used edge to change the price of an item more than once in the same day? Hmm. Are they charging people who shop after work more than people who shop in the morning? Good question. Yeah. Will customers have the option to opt out of the collection of personal data? Nope. By the grocery store? No, we won't. How will Kroger ensure that it will not use customer data related to ESL platforms to discriminate based on protected
[00:17:02] classes such as race, age or gender? Of course she would ask that. When offering personalized, what they're saying is they're going to give you a personalized price. It's just such a leftist thing to go there. She's just such a crackpot. But yeah, she's not really hitting a tremendous amount on just the total NSA aspect and that you have to be virtual in this virtual world even in order to buy groceries. That is crazy. She's kind of hitting on other things, which are good questions too.
[00:17:31] But I can't stand Elizabeth Warren. Let me take it to the next point. Trump just announced all this Stargate where all of our digital health care is going to be kept, all of our data. Yep. Will our grocery data be sent there too? I would imagine. So that if you reach out to buy the Cheetos, AI is going to say not for you, fat girl. You're denied. No, no, no. You're denied or your insurance goes up. Yeah. Uh-huh. Right. Yes. So I think Elizabeth Warren should be asking that question too. You're right.
[00:17:59] They'll stick to certain talking points because they can't let too many cats out of the bag. I mean, it's just, it's a little too close to home. So they ask questions and they usually gear it, you know, toward diversity. I mean, it's just so stupid. But some of the points are good. It's just, and I can't stand her, but some of the points are good. The other things are, oh my gosh, what are we headed for? People just don't get it. They don't realize that we're cheering our own imprisonment with this.
[00:18:27] Because like you just stated and so greatly that everything's intertwined, all your data intertwined, controlled. It's sick. It's a sick thing that's going to happen. Well, yeah. They're going to report your poor grocery store choices. We got to go to break. Be right back.
[00:18:58] This is the Kate Daly Show. I just always think of that song when I think of Elizabeth Warren. Anyway, welcome back. Kate Daly Show. Kate Daly Radio dot com. And I have to have a sense of humor on all this or I'm going to cry.
[00:19:26] So, oh my gosh. I have Midwest Melissa with me. Please go to the website. Kate Daly Radio dot com. And support the sponsors of the show. And I also, you know, it's striking to me how this plan was, how they did the last four years. They made them so crazy, so insane, so horrid, so terrible that any sign of normal, we would
[00:19:54] accept anything that's given to us. We've been under a very big psychological operation, and I hope we all grasp that at this point. All right, Melissa. So back to this topic, because this topic is our future. It is how will grocery shop. It's what they want. They want the data, and then they want to control. Well, I did a little dive into how grocery stores market to us.
[00:20:21] And it's a hilarious reading on one hand, because grocery stores only ever want to sell us healthful, wonderful food that will, you know, transform our lives with rainbows and lollipops. Oh, not lollipops, with kale and rainbows. And that's what we all want to eat because of that. Well, so you have to understand, I think, that grocery stores are absolutely pushing
[00:20:48] food at us in very subtle ways, and we are sometimes smart enough to pick it up and sometimes not. They did a study where they just handed out to people entering the store a recipe that was labeled, like, healthful, you know, low-calorie, whatever. And they found that people picked up more healthful foods just because they were given
[00:21:18] a recipe that had those tags on it. Then the control group just got a recipe. You know, here's a recipe, and you can buy the ingredients here. Right. But the other people got a recipe that said, this is healthful. This is great for your body. This is good for your mind. You know, all that stuff. And people actually bought more healthy food. Well, look at all the very large people that, you know, all these decades later are still buying low-fat groceries. Is it working? Nope. This is the part. Yeah.
[00:21:48] I don't know. I just have to look in the mirror and ask myself, is that working? Oh, my gosh. The low-fat and the diet soda is not working, people. Oh, my gosh. Go to a beach. You'll see it. I don't have to go that far. Oh, anyway. It's just funny. I found this to be a really interesting comment. A researcher, a public health researcher from the University of California, L.A., did a study
[00:22:17] into supermarket interventions for promoting healthy shopping. Right? Yeah. And what she came up with is that using signs on store shelves that promote healthy shopping help people if it's combined with some subtle price manipulation. What were we just talking about? Yeah. Seriously. We were talking about something called dynamic pricing that's personalized to you. Right.
[00:22:47] And Elizabeth Warren made it about, you know, race. No. It's just about... It could be about class. Class warfare. Money. You know, people that have more money will pay more. But because they can look at how many groceries you're buying and assess that you make more money and have your bank account and everything else there. But it's funny how the leftists like Warren always make it about race. I'm like, really? No. It would be about money. I don't see that there's any reason for anybody to be tracking that kind of information. Exactly. Why do they need racial profiling? Yeah.
[00:23:16] You know, the police can't racially profile. I don't think it's about that. If you're based on your gender or your race or anything else, why can a grocery store do it? And just to let you know, the way that they stage their milk so that the skim milk is all the way on the left, because that's where you're going to look first. Because we are English readers, right? We read from left to right. Yeah. And from top to bottom. Interesting.
[00:23:45] So the stuff that they don't want you to have is going to be high or low and to the right in a group of things that are similar. They don't tell me that they don't push unhealthy food. Walk the end caps of your grocery store sometime and ask yourself, what are they trying to sell me on these end caps? Ice cream, frozen pizza, pretzels. They don't put out bags of kale on the end cap. Right.
[00:24:15] So it's all a game and the game is all rooted at its heart. And I thought this was fascinating in the 1920s. And we all know about Edward Bernays and his book called Propaganda. He was the first guy to really bring marketing to the American public. But the whole point was we have this amazing industrial machine that's ready to roar and
[00:24:45] put out all this stuff. We have to create markets for people to want to buy all the stuff we're going to make. Right. And it's the birth of consumerism. You're not really a good person or a good citizen unless you're buying lots and lots of stuff. Mm hmm. And we've seen that even in health care. You're not you're not a good patient unless you buy what the doctor is selling you.
[00:25:12] Or go when you're healthy because it's a wellness check. If I hear well, I swear to you, the fact that we buy into wellness checks just cracks me up. But go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah. Well, you know, when when I went for a wellness check, the doctor said, I only have time to talk to you about three things. Pick the three you want to talk about. Hmm. Hmm. I was like, you're not really interested in my health. They're not interested in the health. You're interested in a 10 minute appointment that you can charge my insurance company.
[00:25:42] One hundred eighty dollars. I lost. I literally lost all respect for medical personnel when my husband went through what he went through. I and when we went through the blovid years, because I could not believe how many of them were so idiotic and moronic. I was just I was so I was shocked. I could not believe it. And it really it really got to me, actually. It was really tough because I really I to that point, you know, you're you're taught to respect.
[00:26:11] Oh, they're a doctor. Oh, they're a nurse, you know, and and the nurses will tell you their nurses every five seconds. But I was just I was abhorred at how they were willing to sell sell that junk for all that evil for a dollar. I mean, it was just amazing to me. Wasn't it to you? I'm like, no, I think maybe look at it. Maybe that's one of the big pieces of the disillusionment that people that got disillusioned during
[00:26:36] covid over the health care system are much more likely to see it coming the second time. Yes. People who were not disillusioned, people who were frightened into it, who said and I had a friend tell me this. I had to take that shot because my doctor told me if I got covid, I would die. Oh, my gosh. They believed it. And, you know, she said I had to prevent that that would bring bad things to me.
[00:27:04] And I said, your doctor actually injected you with bad things. Yeah, exactly. And I put the hospital administrations on the same part as Congress and the Senate total cockroaches. One more like the gnat on the rear end of a cockroach. It's about that level for me. That's if somebody comes to me and says I'm a hospital administrator, I'm like, yeah, you're the lowliest creatures. Ick. So, yeah, I'm not a fan at all.
[00:27:31] I'm like, I totally get these people that are just disgusting. So, yeah, I'm not nice. I'm not nice. Kate, we have to be we have to be nice to me because this stuff has been going. It's been coming at us since the 1920s. Yeah, I can't. We are saturated and brined to the gills and you have to buy whatever somebody is selling you. Oh, my gosh.
[00:27:57] And that's, you know, are my parents, my grandparents even were part of that. We can't even see the forest anymore. Yeah, there's only. Because it's everywhere we go. There's only a few doctors I actually respect because they actually care about health and get it and get what happened. And those are the ones I respect. Pretty much everyone else. I just I'm at that point of disdain. Like, it's just it's not good. Right. It's not probably not healthy. But I'm like, yeah.
[00:28:27] Anyway, I wonder how many other people feel the same way. All right. I'll be right back. We'll be right back. Kate Daly show. Kate Daly radio dot com. More with Midwest Melissa. When we come back. Be right back.
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[00:29:15] Welcome back. Kate Daly show. And I just wanted to also kind of FYI, everybody. Tina Peters. I had her on my show. She was trying to expose election fraud in her state through in prison for it. Yeah, it's so grotesque. And Tina is amazing. She's a real true hero, really. And, you know, I don't say that lightly about anybody.
[00:29:38] So but sources, my sources in government are saying maybe two weeks she might be freed. So let's just hope. Let's just hope that happens. All right. So welcome back. And I've got Midwest Melissa. All right, Midwest Melissa. Take it from here. Well, I just kind of want to finish things off with this. OK.
[00:30:01] If we have been taught our whole lifetime that consumption is the purpose of our life. Number one, we should challenge that and question that. Is that really the purpose of your life? It's just to be a consumer. No. And if it's not, then how do we break those bad habits? How do we how do we get out of that? How do we red pill that? And we did something here. We are doing it in my house right now. We were kind of forced into it.
[00:30:30] My husband was involved with a layoff. And so we have said, OK, we're in no by January. So starting in even we were doing no by before that, because because we were being very careful with our financial resources. But it's been an interesting experiment. What happens to you psychologically when you have that mindset? We don't want to buy things.
[00:30:59] And my husband's initial reaction was like, well, we have to buy food. And I said, OK, we're going to make exceptions for things that are reasonable. We have to buy gas for our car. We have to buy food. We have to pay our mortgage. We have to pay the light bill. But we're not going to we're going to look at all the other stuff that we're buying. And we're going to ask ourselves, do we really need that? Right. Do we really need to spend that money? And it's forced us to do some things.
[00:31:28] You know, what can we do instead of going out for dinner? What can we do instead of going to a movie? What can we do that would be fun instead of going? And I think a lot of us are using retail therapy as like just a psychological relief from the stress of our life. Right. So sometimes you have to kind of engage in other things. And it's been kind of refreshing, actually. Well, that's good.
[00:31:56] We have cut our household budget quite literally in half. And my husband was like, what were we spending all our money on? Well, yeah, I bet it's eye opening for sure. Yeah, it is. And so I'll just throw the challenge out there. You know, we're at the beginning of the year. There's lots of people who've already given up on their resolutions. I've given up on a few of mine already.
[00:32:22] But, you know, take a minute and ask yourself, what could I achieve in my life if I wasn't, if the purpose of my life was not to just buy and consume stuff? Right. How could I be of better service in my community? What could I learn instead? Maybe look at a free online class that you could take. And there's so much that's free. But I was like, I'll do a Hillsdale class. That'd be fine.
[00:32:50] I've been up at my library a bunch and gotten books from the library instead of buying a book. Instead of going to the movies, we've looked for movies at the library that we could bring home for free. There's all kinds of things. We've done things with friends. I had an evening with a friend where we just went over to her house and had hot chocolate. That's awesome. I love it. And it was more fun. So there's, I think we have to break out of that.
[00:33:19] Just like you were talking about, like we have to challenge the medical establishment. We also have to challenge the establishment that is selling us stuff all the time. Yeah, you're right. Why are they selling? They're selling us a lifestyle. They're telling us all the time, you're not good enough unless you have the newest phone. Unless you have a new car this year, unless you have, they're selling us a lifestyle that sometimes we can't afford and don't really want anyway. And we're still kind of miserable.
[00:33:47] Let's reinvest in ourselves this year in 2025 and in becoming people that are free of some of that. Hey, I'm with you. I really am. I mean, there's, there's a lot. I know people are, you know, hey, I am trying to just make it. I'm trying to make sure my kids aren't woke. I said this yesterday too. I'm trying to, you know, I have so many things on my plate and I get it, but I actually love your point. I think it's great to, to, to concentrate on that.
[00:34:17] I know in November they had like a no screen November in many, many schools. And I thought it was really a great thing because the kids got to realize how much they were watching screens. So I think these types of months, I think they're great to do because it just sort of reminds you. We'll have to try that at our house. Yeah. No screen November. We'll have to do a different thing next month. I'll have to really challenge myself on that one. My husband has been really, both of us have been really surprised.
[00:34:45] And so we've kept a list like when, when he starts his new job on Monday. So we're good and we're through the worst of all of that. I'm so glad. But we have kind of a little list when, when we have a paycheck again, what are we going to, you know, what's our priorities? And that's also kind of an important way to kind of avoid being this big Uber consumer. Yeah. Like have a plan for what you want to do. We all have to buy stuff sometimes.
[00:35:10] So let's make sure we're buying quality things, save our money from buying, you know, fast fashion nonsense. And buy, buy a quality piece of clothing that you're going to have in your closet for a long time. Yeah. Maybe it's more expensive, but maybe the investment is worth it. Yeah. Or, you know, then, then when you go out with your friends and have lunch or you have a dinner with friends, it's really meaningful. Right.
[00:35:37] We spent, we spend more because we've gone more to cards instead of cash. When we have cash, we actually spend less. And so it actually has done us a lot of harm. But that was a lot of brainwashing and programming to get us to the point where we, all you have are cards in your wallet with no cash available. And we shouldn't do that. We need to pull out cash and use cash more. Um, it's only going to be to our detriment, but it also, the, the, the, one of the other detriments of it is spending more money because it's on a card.
[00:36:06] You're not feeling it and seeing it. Right. Yeah. No kidding. I mean, I've had, I've challenged myself. I've carried a $5 bill in my wallet ever since my husband lost his job, which was back before Thanksgiving. Right. And I'm like, I'm not going to spend that. And I see things all the time that I want to buy. I'm like, Oh, look at that. They, they got the Easter candy out at the store now. And then I'm like, I have to buy that with my $5 in cash. And I'm like, no, I don't want it that bad.
[00:36:36] I want that $5 in my wallet. I love it. You can play psychological games on yourself. It doesn't all have to be driven by the creepy weird people. That's so true. Our brainwashing. Yeah, I get it. I, yeah, absolutely. Brainwash yourself into good behavior. Yeah. Well, you know, it's sometimes it's cheaper to buy new than, than to fix something these days. And so they, they've made the culture into the buying culture and yeah, it's easy to see.
[00:37:05] So I thank you Midwest Melissa. I really appreciate you. And that was great. I'm glad you brought in a Kroger and Walmart. Actually some big chains are doing some of that, the stuff you talked about as far as the digital, going digital. Be on the lookout for it. All right. Beef. Okay. Well, katedalyradio.com. Thanks again, Melissa. katedalyradio.com.