Oh my gosh.
Youth sport is insane.
Volleyball monthly is $400.
Who is doing that?
We pay a lot more for diesel than any other country.
I tried ordering a medium Domino's pizza the other day.
It was like $27.
And I was like, wow, this is insane.
When I was growing up, my dad and I'd play this game every time we went grocery shopping.
We'd guess what the total cost would be, and whoever got closest won.
I actually still do this, even though I'm shopping just for me now.
That means I'm always paying attention to how prices change.
What used to feed a family of threes, now just enough to cover my own grocery bill.
And those prices just keep going up.
So what gives?
Why are so many things so much more expensive than they used to be?
I'm John Gwynn Hill, and we're going to find out this week on Explain It To Me From Vox.
We'll visit your favorite coffee shop and the grocery store later to figure out what's going on with those prices.
But first, we got to stop for some gas, and we're picking up a passenger on the way.
My name is Sam Maury, and I am the executive director of the Institute for Climate