let s talk to steve more about this. steve, the problem is inflation is at decades high. recession around the corner. it s a heck of a one-two punch. you better believe it. the good news is that the inflation rate has come down a little bit the last two or three months, charles. that s good news. we went from almost 9% inflation this past summer to now we re down to about 7.1%. as you just said, that is still the highest inflation rate we ve had in 35, 40 years. so americans are feeling the punch. their wages and salaries have only gone up by 5 or 6%. that s one of the reasons that you reported that credit card debt is going up. people are trying to maintain their standard of living but paychecks are not keeping pace. i m nervous. i think inflation will come down in 2023 from the high rates of 2022. but i also think that the economy shows real signs of slowing down. i pray we don t crash into a recession. but we sure could. charles: steve, that s what i m concerned about.
fun, we have a huge show ahead including a bad gifts return edition of supermarket showdown. we are going to face off and in quality trivia challenge, plus we are answering your fan mail questions, but first, time for a holiday hangover themed fastest, are you ready? what plenty of folks are happy to see the holidays were known and most people wishes that it happened longer than it actually does, 52% say that they may tried to fit in as many festivities as possible, but the same percentage agree that there is not enough time in the holiday season to do everything they want to do, do you wish that the holidays lasted longer? jimmy: no, and thank you for not acknowledging that i look like a whole santa who got fired for smoking pot with the elves. people are trying to do too much and that s why they think the season is too short, everybody needs to try to stop having the coolest christmas on and scream and paste themselves, let s play some music and have a good time, there we
44! s before i went to community college! we will be here for a month. all right, what popular christmas song was originally intended for thanksgiving? was it silent night? was it jingle bells? was it co come all ye faithful? i know the answer and i will get this right. is it silent night? jingle bells? oh ye faithful, and with the point, you want to know why? me and the judge are tied with three right now, because we had into question number six, because it was a spin-off of over the river and through the woods to grandmother s house we go. this is how she got run over by a reindeer. judge jeanine: you don t know this. jimmy: i m just trying to get in your head, judge, what is swedish children leave for santa claus?
geraldo: did you feel grounded or put upon? judge jeanine: oh, no, i was very into it. geraldo: you work? did you make a link? my last question, a link between the birth of and judge jeanine: absolutely, it was a religious holiday. geraldo: what about you? dana: we went to church, the earlier service, but we always open our gifts on christmas eve and then santana arrived overnight and those were the gifts that were available under the tree or in the stocking in the morning. jimmy: christmas morning guy, so christmas eve at my grandma s house which is where half sicilian half polish, so the feast of the seven flushes and then the next morning when everybody wakes up and pulled her life together we would open up the presents. geraldo: what do you do with the twins? jesse: presence christmas eve in oyster bay with my father and mother and then we will do morning presence with
dana: you have young kids, do you wish it lasted longer? jesse: the second i unwrapped the last present for myself i am immediately depressed, and then it becomes you have to clean up everything coming have to clean up the table, the wrapping paper, and if you don t clean up the wrapping paper during the unwrapping process that s not how you do things, so yes, there is something very dark and scary, it s a dark winter ones that last present is open. jimmy: do you live in that house where a photo has a hefty bag in the background? and one kid as soon as they finish everything, one has to wait until the garbage goes to the bag and nobody touches anything until that is done. jesse: i m not enjoying the unwrapping i just try to clean up the whole time. dana: i feel like it has to last until february, it can all work out in one month, so you push it into the new year and