0:40:35 Dave @DCBK2LA (speaker unconfirmed): Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Of course. So one of our community members and one of my close friends, Juan writes, as a single dad veteran and cancer survivor, I can totally relate to John. Freedom and anti establishment sound like the kind of representative that you want in the senate. What's your plan on fighting the rising cost of living and adjusting CPI to more accurately reflect expenses?

0:40:56 John E Deaton @JohnEDeaton1 (speaker unconfirmed): Well, first of all, you could never trust the government on the CPI, which is the consumer price index. That's what the government uses for their inflation numbers. But you wanna know what the two things they exclude when they tell us what the inflation number is? They they exclude energy, and they exclude food. So what are the two number reasons for inflation that hurt families, working people?

0:41:19 NatNat @Natnatx007 (speaker unconfirmed): Energy and