7-31-26 Hour 1 - Do Americans think things are getting Worse?

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Iran wore and he's been shedding curses at his top-nest experiences. At the last time, Trump was this angry who was when McDonald's added salads to the menu. Is that supposed to be funny?

I don't think so. Good morning, everybody. This is Patrice on Rooka.

And I'm here in for the great first plant today.

It is a friday for all of our WML listeners. Your usual friday gal with Larry O'Connor in the morning. I've been doing that stick for quite some time. And so it's great to be back with you guys this morning.

Well, this today, we've got some great stuff. We've got some great guests coming up today. You know, I really want to look at where we are and where we can be going as a country. And more importantly, the fight to protect what you and I all

hold so dearly. So buckle up, stay with me. It's going to be a great three hours. Don't go away during the break.

“So if you do, you can get a bathroom break.”

I'll let that happen. But we will be right here for you.

Whatever you're going to be doing this morning,

keep it tuned to this network. Well, let's kick off. So OK, so for those of you who have not met me, it great to meet you. I'm Patrice.

I am a first of all. I'm a daughter of the Almighty God. I will not hide that. But I'm also a wife and I'm a mother of three boys. They are six, seven, and 13 years old.

So as you can imagine, I am at the grocery store many times a week. And I have the pulse on affordability, gas prices, groceries, back to school spending, all of that. And I'll tell you, it does come in handy.

Because my day job is as the vice president for economic policy at independent women.

Now, this is a national organization,

but we have grassroots across the country. We are women who are serious about policy. And we come from it with no reservations. And we don't hold back. We believe that the government should be limited.

The government does not need to be in your business. What it does need to do is get the roadblocks out of your way. So you can create the future you want for yourself and for your family. If you don't know us from our economic work,

which is where a lot of my time, you might know us from protecting women's sports. Independent women has been the leading organization. Well, before everybody jumped on the bandwagon, but the leading organization in really identifying

that boys playing in girl sports was an issue, hearing from young women across the country who were fed up with losing opportunities, losing scholarships. A lot of you guys know one of our best ambassadors,

Riley Gaines, and as an organization we've been fighting not just to amplify this issue, but to see legislative changes. I mean, we've partnered with so many governors and legislators to get past a model legislation that enshrines in state law

that boys and girl sports are different and need to be protected and girl sports needs to be protected for biological women. We've also even extended that beyond just sports to ensuring that men and women's spaces are different,

that women's spaces are secure for biological women. I mean, guys, this should be a no-brainer, but hello, we're in 2026 where we are told that we are crazy for saying that a man who pretends to be a woman so that he can carry out his perverse views

or whatever for whatever reason should be able to have access to the locker rooms, to the public bathrooms, to any space that women hold as a sanctuary. And you know what? That even extends to women who are serving time.

If you are in a California prison right now,

“as a woman, you should not have to worry”

that your next cell mate or your cell mate is a man who has a sexual, a history of sexual violence against women, but masquerades is a man to get access to women. So independent women. You know, we have been leading the charge on so many of these issues

and working with a lot of great members, a lot of great organizations and legislators at the federal and the state level all the way up to the White House. We've had some really great partners. Now, the work I do though is, like I said, the economy.

I also focus on technology. I focus on, you know, workforce issues because actually we're seeing all of these kind of converse in one place and come together. But I'll tell you a little bit about myself.

So I talk about who I am today, but my story really goes back to about 1985 when I was just away. I think three years old. And my parents, they sold everything they had.

A British colony called Munsterot and moved us to the United States. We didn't do it in the shadows.

“We didn't sneak under the under offense.”

We came here stepped off a plane. Having gone through a full vetting process. I even have the marks in my arms for the vaccinations I had to take to come to this country. My parents had to prove they could,

they could support this family when we came to this country. And they started from scratch. Why?

Because they've always instilled in us folks.

America is the greatest place on this planet. It is a place where where you are born does not dictate where you end. Or how far you go. It is a place where your children do not have to be wealthy or well connected to see promise to see opportunity

to make something of themselves. The America is the place where you can, your children can have a better future than you had. Where you can leave a legacy, create from scratch, from nothing, something.

And they worked menial jobs. And they saved their pennies to move us out of the inner city of Boston in the height of the drug epidemic. Surrounded by gang violence.

“But that violence and those drugs and those negative forces”

never infiltrated us. Because they grounded us in a faith in God. Bottom line, faith in God. And then they taught us about work ethic. Great determination, perseverance.

Personal responsibilities, folks. Personal responsibility. And even delayed gratification. Meaning that they would put their pennies aside to save for a down payment for a fixer upper

on the outskirts of the city of Boston and move us out of violence into serenity into a place where we could build something. And I am the embodiment of their American dream. Me right here.

In front of how many listeners across this country from coast to coast. You are listening to the American dream that still in action. Still in play. Not because a government agent or bureaucrat gave us anything.

And we never stood in line in front of a government building

for a block of cheese. No. We didn't. Because my parents taught us that we don't need. We get.

Giving is also one of those foundational principles. And as a result, they're kids. We have gone on to do some good things. My kids are playing golf. My parents never even dreamed that that would be their

grandkids future. But that's what's possible in America. And that's why I am. I wake up every day. Because I want to make sure that that is possible.

Not just for my boys. But for your kids. For your grandkids. For everyone in this country who wants to make something

of what's in front of them.

And that's what we're up against. Opportunity, prosperity, mobility. And the fight that we are in, unfortunately, is from people who will tell me that my American dream story doesn't matter that I am in fact an oppressed black woman

that I am somehow the government is against me because I'm an immigrant. By the way, they forget I'm naturalized. They don't know that I've gone through the legal process. And I expect everybody else to do the same.

But they want to put me in a box. Folks, I'm not in a box. I'm not in a box. You're not in a box. And you're not going to put my kids or their future in

some narrow view of what I should be of what they can be.

“But that's what we're up against with the socialist”

and the communist takeover. And that's why I fight so hard for economic mobility. For everybody. I don't care what you look like. I don't care.

You know, you're gender. I don't care where you were born. I don't care what your last name is. In this country, that doesn't. None of that needs to matter.

What needs to matter is what you're willing to make of what's in front of you. But we've got a socialist communist takeover. And it's in it's on a march right now. You you all are following the midterms.

You're following what's going on in Maine. New York City is a great example of what we're up against. But if they only understood if the communist and the socialist. You know, they rebranded communism as

democratic socialism to get the young millennials and engineers super excited about helping people. Because we evil capitalist, we free enterprise people. We don't help people. They couldn't be more wrong.

Because obviously, you know, capitalism has what has allowed deaths and from famines to drop 99% over the past 60 years. The standard of living has grown is 10 times better today than it was 50 years ago. That's that's free enterprise folks.

When we look at the businesses, the entrepreneurial spirit. That happens here in America. It does not happen in the socialist communist places that they

They think is the utopia and should be the model for what's

possible. This is no hyperbole folks.

“When I say this, America is where dreams come to life.”

Other nations are where they go to die. And we see this. We saw this in the Biden administration when the floodgates were open at the southern border because people were coming for opportunity.

They were. I mean, yes, they would claim that they were they were claiming asylum falsely most in most cases. But they were looking for something. They were looking for what we are blessed to enjoy.

And that when something we shouldn't take for granted, guys. But that's what they were looking for. The socialist, though, they think, oh, forget that, you know, everybody should be equal, we're all going to have the same kind of life.

And they never point to a successful example of a nation that is

even on the same footing as America. You want to look at the Nordic nations? Yes, but those are homogeneous countries. We are the most diverse country on this planet. So no, you cannot copy and paste what goes on in another country and

think it's going to work here. And I encourage you. I mean, traveling overseas is great, but go live in some of these other countries and understand what it's like when the electricity

“goes out for 14 hours, while you need to get worked on while you're working”

remotely. Go live in a country where the streets are not paved with gold. The streets are made of muck and dust. Where you are in a, you are dodging pod holes. More than you're dodging, you know,

traffic lights, I mean, folks, this is, this is the reality that most that many people around this world face.

The communist and socialists don't want to admit it.

And if we're not careful, folks, we will lose our young people. We will lose our kids, our grandkids to a dogma that, that's suggest we can be good for other people by stealing from somebody who's worked hard. We don't want to lose our kids to this idea that, oh,

you're successful. That means I need to take from you and give to somebody else so we can equal you out. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I hate the fact that I have to write a check to Uncle Sam every year

because I worked hard because my husband works hard. That's a lot in itself. But now take us to what the socialist want to do. New York City and obviously California, but especially New York City is where they are test, test running a lot of these ideas.

And we're going to get into some of this with our guests today. But there are some good news. We are not all doom and gloom here. Let's play cut seven because when we look at the midterms where this the newest battle front has been open, we actually do see something

surprising. I would argue the biggest red flag that Republicans are excuse me. Democrats have the biggest red flag. Look at this. It's apathy.

Not believing that Democrats can change anything because the impacts of Democrats Democratic policies on your cost of living only 41 percent say help hurt or wouldn't change it. The clear majority nearly three and five. 59 percent.

There you go. So the Democrats actually among voters right now. They should be sweeping the board folks. But they're not because Democrats, including Democratic voters, but including Democratic voters, don't believe that Democrats have

solutions to make their lives better. To make their lives more affordable. Oh, really? So taking my home, my own property. And then giving it to the government and letting them decide

who gets to live there is not a popular idea. You know, oh, a government own grocery store. That's going to compete with a local bodega on the corner. That is work so hard to provide opportunities for immigrants from Yemen and from Somalia and from, you know, a Costa Rica from other countries

and from regular Americans. That's not popular to have a government-run grocery store. Because you know what?

“Actually, I think a few of us remember what it was like when there was”

a cheese line in this country. And the shame of the cheese line. Well, we're going to get into this in more today. But I'm Patrice On Luca. I'm here in for Chris Plant.

We've got a great slate of guest coming up and starting with Hillary Fordwich. She's the former global business development head from KPMG. And I'm usually on with her on a lot of news programs talking about the economy.

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And it is a Friday, which is always a good time.

So we're picking up on the conversation that we were just having about opportunity. Freedom. Really what we want to preserve in this country. And the fight that we are up against with the democratic socialist.

You are unfortunately gaining some traction here. So I stumbled across this interesting article in the not bad. Daily wire by Zack Stark. The headline reads the reason Americans think everything is getting worse. Uh, is.

“And so he talks about prices are on the rise, but so are our expectations.”

Let me break this down a little bit for you. He says the headline is troubling. More Americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck according to CNBC. He talks about some different surveys. There's a lending club.

The federal reserve says maybe it's, it's fewer than 60 percent.

Maybe it's actually more about 37 percent of Americans who would struggle to meet an unexpected expense. Bank of America suggests that it's actually even better. I mean, about a quarter of people live paycheck to paycheck. So whether we are 25 percent, 36 percent or even 60 percent of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck. I generally understand there's some, there's concern.

You've got higher prices right now. Yes, our pay is going up. And, you know, the inflation readings, which we've got last week. You know, they came in a little better. And in fact, for all of 2025, the inflation,

uh, headline inflation had been falling. Thankfully, because of a strong economic agenda. Uh, but that said, the Warren in the war conflict, I should say, with Iran has certainly been driving gas prices higher. And, and folks, don't forget, although we're above $4 a gallon right now. You know, a couple of weeks ago, it actually dipped back down to what 385 or and we were dropping.

And so we know that the gas price impact on inflation is very temporary. Given that there can be resolution to both ensuring the street of hormones remains open. And the conflict in Iran comes to an end. That's, but the underlying prices are falling. We saw that in some consumer data.

Uh, data, excuse me, federal data yesterday on some of the inflation reading, separate inflation reading. So, there's good. And we also saw that the economy grew 1.2%. But if you look at the, you know, beyond that headline number, there's some good stuff there. That said, you and I, we go to the grocery store.

We feel like, you know, our pay doesn't go as far. The interest rates are still high. Yes, the federal reserve did not cut interest rates nor did they increase them, which is, I guess, okay. But we still feel pressed. And that pressing is the margin we live by.

You know, that pressing that margin is the extra pizza night out on a Friday night. It's the extra family time.

“And so I think what's important for us is to not lose perspective.”

That while it, the, we don't have as much margin as we might have had. Our standards of living are significantly better than they were before. And even more than that. Uh, when we think about where we are compared to many other countries, our standard of living is so high. And so, you know, definitely go over to the daily wire.

Take a look at that piece. Uh, but folks, let's not lose perspective. I'm Patrice I'm Luca in for risk plan. It's the risk plan, Joe.

Welcome back to the first plan show.

I'm Patrice. I'm Luca in for Chris today. And I am excited to have our first guest of the morning. But before we welcome her in, I just want to give you a rundown. We do have at 10 a.m. Dr. Monique.

Uh, you'll hand in from the independent women center for better health. Uh, independent women and 10 30. Megan mob. She's the director of the Center for American safe security. Uh, safety on Russian Ukraine.

You've got some really great guests coming up. Uh, so, we're going to continue with this threat of the economy. And frankly, the fight against the socialists. And I'm so excited to welcome Hillary Fordwitch. Hillary is a business leader.

She has over three decades of experience. Um, in building practices, firms and clients. She's formally worked with the international as the international head of glory. And business development and sales for KPMG. She is a brilliant woman.

Uh, certainly we do the cable news circuit. Uh, very often with her.

Because she is from England.

Hillary, welcome to the Chris plan show. Oh, that was absolutely lovely introduction. Thank you for treating us. Yeah, I saw it when I was five years old. Uh, that's right.

That's right. You were brilliant even back then. Uh, well, I loved. I wanted to tap you and tap you to talk today about just what's going on in the economy. Um, we're going to get to that in a moment.

Because we have some interesting stuff that came up this week, some interesting data. I kind of teased it beforehand. But you know, I would just love for you to weigh in with on just what we're seeing with the, this, this, this march of socialism and these experiments that we're seeing.

“Um, you know, I think you and I having come from different countries have a different perspective on why we value.”

What's in America so much. So I'll just let you, uh, to talk a little bit about that then we can talk about what's going on here in the US. Well, thank you for treating you. I'm totally correct. Uh, I was on the morning England.

I was saying I'm American by choice. Uh, I was on my choice. I was a very, I was a very, I was a very little girl when my parents laughed. But I know the socialism doesn't work. And as if I would suggest to all those people who are voting for socialist decandies, candidates like my money.

Uh, I suggest they go and see what it's like to live in a socialist country. And maybe they should ask for descendants of all those people that came from socialist countries. Why did their parents leave? So just a tiny bit of background for our audience to give us a perspective. In England, it was a huge trauma, it was known as the great brain brain.

And that is the form of a such a thing to power. The lawyers account with architects engineers, basically. Any moment of brain was getting your job at a different country. Why? My daddy would consult made man.

He was in an 82% tax market. Let me repeat that. He was in an 82% tax bracket. Self made man. And they were putting up taxes.

And the Margaret Patrick said the problem with socialism is a portion of the fear.

“You run out of spending other people's money.”

Now, this is exactly what happened in here in the US. You might talk about that. And one of the things is that, or absolutely nothing. They found wonderful. Oh, yeah, I'll free-busting free childcare.

It's all ugly. But again, as Margaret Patrick says, there's no free lunch. Somebody somewhere in the trees has to pay for everything. Who is going to pay for it? Yes, it's going to be the taxes of the wrong things.

But the problem is the wealthy is they can move.

They will leave. Then what I've always said is if you believe in socials and you want socials. Everybody from untowardly America can add more to their taxes. Like, give them a million dollars. That's what you can do.

Do that instead. Because in the long run, it doesn't work. And again, I would deal with, if you could point to a nation where it was. Now, in addition to the things you mentioned earlier. Or you mentioned I had it.

There was a problem with the KPMG. Rob White. So I didn't live in Holland. Now, many people would drop the points. A lot of them would have countries actually laid their theories.

But in order to come to me. They have to come to me. Yes. And that was. Ah.

But there's canches now. Are you ready?

“And now all these new things are very quick to clear of this.”

I know you're first hand. I lived in Holland for three years. I had my eldest son there. And I'll tell you, because when I return one of my attorneys, I learned something very important.

The neighbor came by. They were brought me from something to congratulate me on my baby. And I sent them to Martin. They said, oh, yeah. He used the same.

If somebody at the back is out, that's where he also goes. To check that they are not just staying home and taking the dog of the money. No, but then we report them to the government. So what happens?

And I always call it what I do the surgery as the biking principle.

Now, a lot of our audience will have seen. The lovely Norwegian road during the World Cup. But it's very important. When the biking is literally, we're growing across the Atlantic. Or we're building their babies.

When you're in it boat. And everyone's running. So the trees is rolling. I'm rolling. And 10 members of our audience are rolling.

If Patricia's back goes out, well, I continue to roll. And I really don't have them because I'm covering for your back. Yeah. What you don't do is have four people sitting in the boat having cocktails. With you rolling for them because it doesn't work.

So the Nordic countries, people of raw top with. We have to cover for our neighbors. Is their back is out. I don't look at the people. But we will report them.

And then taking money. And that's very different than the way. In the United States. We have. Yes.

In America, we have thousands of people. But it's just on the take. A little of factories to each. We have these. That you are not.

Everybody who is listening. You can take the pain. But then you do nothing. Well, it's speaking with Hillary forward. You know, you frame this really well.

And it folks, you're understanding two different perspectives of. People coming from different countries. To what's different here in the United States. You know, Hillary, you picked up on this idea of charity. Where, you know, in England, your neighbor or in the other country.

The neighbor will, you know, take care of you see after you. But there's that element of the tattle tail where you're there's the reporting because everyone is expected to put in their equal share. Otherwise, the system breaks down. In the United States here, we don't do that.

And you called, you know, on on your neighbor across the street who should be on disability.

“You know, you know, it is lifting panels to put on solar panels to put on his, his roof, right?”

That would be something. But we don't do that because I do think that Americans, you know, we believe in the best of each other from each other. And we say to each other, you know what? Do what you want to do. And I'm going to take care of me.

And as long as my taxes keep getting low and you what you're doing is not impacting me in a negative way. And then then I'm fine with it. And and because we are focused on creating value, what whether you are, you know, building your own small business. Maybe you're delivering groceries for one of the apps, making some side cash. You know, you're setting up your bake sale. Your kids are setting up a bake sale in a lemonade stand to learn about entrepreneurship.

You know, there's something ingrained here in America that is so different from other countries. And, you know, we, we look at the economy. I was going to ask you about the GDP, the Federal Reserve. I mean, we, where do you see the economy right now? Because to me, the entrepreneurial spirit is very much alive in this country. Even though we have these challenges coming from the socialist whose value is really quench and quench that spirit.

Yeah, you're trying to make correct on that. I think that's one thing about when we talk about taxes and what we want, as Americans, I'm not going to take the liberty of speaking for everybody else who are sitting out audience. But when I'm paying my taxes, I feel as an able-bodied social. I don't mind providing for the influence of handicapped. I don't mind providing for veterans.

I don't mind providing for the elderly. Anybody who really needs it. Because I know I'm able-bodied. It's the people that are taking a volunteer to the system. That's the mind. I take the liberty of speaking for other people. Now, John, the oppression of the guardian of the economy.

Actually, the truth, people love it when I hear this and they would say, "Hillary, I can't believe that I'll do the same."

Once the data point, I always listen to the chat you don't hear a lot of talking about.

So a lot of the data that the government has to pay attention to and the things is antiquated data. Because you like driving the car, looking at the revenue, we don't do that. So they actually use data that is received and generated and listed from landlines. Why don't you go through it? I don't even know someone who has a landline, right?

So here's one very interesting data point that I pay attention to. If you pay attention to how the sales of sports goods are doing,

“I will tell you everything you need to know. Why?”

Because it's totally discretionary. So if you think you're going to lose your job and you're not doing well and you're scared about the economy, you will not go out and buy sports goods because you don't really need them. They're just rushing at it. So it's a very good data point to pay attention to. And right now, sports goods sales are by 27 of the best.

Wow, and I look at that light and I look at that and I say, "Oh, good." Now, let's look at the bed and let's look at what just happened with Kelly. First of all, stack up a second. We all know, I hit most people know, Kevin Moore should not get tremendous pressure. Because it's a general chair, like in a reserve chair, Kevin Moore, she has.

Yes, always a car. I have a general reserve chair for Kevin Moore.

She's done the tremendous pressure from President Trump. Who would like to be, which is quantitative easy. What is that? That is bringing interest rate down. Everybody, every member of the audience come and make to the interest we pay on our credit card by the way. That's the way to throw away money. You don't have to do that.

Always pay off your credit card bill, but we pay attention to what our mortgage rates are. That's really matters. So, it matters what interest rates are. Now, they hold them steady. And one of the things that Kevin Moore's the venture has said, which I think is very, very wise. He has said, "We're not going to do a lot of forward guidance. What does that mean?"

The poor venture used to actually do a lot of talking about where their economy is going, what we're seeing. And that would actually help the market shake the market. That isn't the role of the Fed. The Fed's role is to look at the data that has been collected and to act upon that. But I won't give the caveat. One of the things I believe it was Alan Greenspan, a former Fed chair, but I'm not 100% certain.

But definitely a former Fed chair said, "Do you want to be a company?" It's like trying to clear the credit scenario.

“In other words, you have to $2,000 a month, but the great song will steal that $2,000 a month.”

Anything they do today isn't actually going to affect what happens next month. Or even at the end of this year, it's going to be next year. >> Okay. >> Two minutes out. Right now, we're actually acting upon the Fed chair. >> It's so interesting. We're speaking with Hillary Fordwitch on just the economy and where we're at. What you gave me, and I look at these data in this number, and I do recognize that there are folks who are stretched a little thin.

But I also recognize that I think Americans are weathering the economy very well, and that the economy is good.

So I think of exporting goods.

“I think of a lot of the retailers, even the Walmart area that has balls.”

And athletic gear, we are gearing up in the fall. I know my husband coaches, of gut sons who are on the travel team.

So we are one of those families that are spending money on plates and all of this type of equipment.

But I think that's a really good measure, and a reminder for us that we would love some more measure. But we are not as bad as we could be, and I listen to Kevin Hassett, who's on the presidency economic council. He's a blink chair of the council this morning, and he said, "Yeah, when you look at generally what's going on in the rest of the economy,

“that headline GDP growth number of, I believe it was 1.2% or 1.5% in Q2.”

That is reflective of the amount of investment that's being made by companies and purchasing in anticipation of an AI boom.

And so when you look at the consumer data, consumer spending is on a strong track in them at this spring months. So that's good news, and especially good news for families is there buying their back to school items as they're thinking about the end of the year and Christmas shopping. Folks don't need to give into the panic over the economy.

“They don't need to give into the fear-mongering because, honestly, Hillary, would you agree that a lot of the economic fear-mongering are probably driven by people with partisan motivations that don't want to see this administration do well?”

So you're asking for it there, in fact, one of those two things that I would assume that this is, again, guidance for our audience. Number one, that always saves a listen to our president's speech or anybody that's talking, listen to how many times that would be the third word that would show you what the priority is. So when pressure given which we're skipping his final response, we can get to the end of the words on day before. He kept using the word resilience. The consumer resilience. Yes, that's what's really important to pay attention to. The consumer to your point earlier, very resilient. Look at that.

I'm going there for a dollar for doubt. And the consumer is resilient. I think we're looking at it now to a very good observation. I think our audience would pay attention to it. One of the things I always look at and read, I listen to media, I mean, an audience you mentioned, thank you, but I'm on the news lag for signing the Australian GB news all of which are conservative leaning. But I read and listen to all media, the left, there isn't really the middle ending of the left and the right. And when you see something, you know, on the left, you know, pretty much in a country, Trump and got a different to your point, a lot of blood agenda. When you see them looking something positive about the economy, even reluctantly, you know it's really good, because otherwise they wouldn't write.

So that's one of the things I look to and Roy to say, exactly what kind of motion thing to consume, this is really resilient. The FBI has been asked of the consumer price index. Yes, and you look at whether it's just questioning items for even just regular and payroll numbers and something very important, which actually I noticed. That you'll see, and we see they actually said it so quickly, they said it under their breath. I want to make it. Now, I want to make a very big point of this because the Beatles were sitting at that time. Do you know our unemployment rate hasn't been this low since 1969.

When the Beatles were sitting in, hey, June. That's a long time ago. And that is a huge number. I mean, that should have been headlines around the world. I mean, we know next week is usually the beginning of the month. Next Friday is job stay. And so we will understand where the unemployment numbers are, but the unemployment rate is historically low. And frankly, Hillary, I pointed this out a few weeks ago. It's the summer time. Parents who have children who are out of school, they do tend to leave the workforce and take some time off. So if there's even some ripple of, you know, an employment, it's very often probably temporary during this week.

It's very often probably temporary during this time of the year. You know, I, I wholeheartedly agree with you that we need to have a very optimistic view of where we are as a country and looking at where people's finances are despite some of the different headwinds that are temporary, you know, not really long-term structural stuff. That's the good news folks. It's not about, you know, we're in the great depression or recession. It's not that we've got COVID anymore. Oh, and teaser. We will be talking about the co, Dr. Fauci, very soon folks. So it's stay tuned. But we're not dealing with those issues. And I think folks can, should be taking not with a grain of salt, and we'll be talking about that.

If the, if the, if the left is just speaking over the, the good news, it's because they really want you to be fear-mongered on on the bad stuff. Hillary, for which please follow folks, her ex is age-forward, which Hillary, or go to ex, and I'm sharing it on my, my Twitter feed, but definitely follow her and when you see her, she's going to be a good news.

Hello, welcome back to the Gris Plan Show on Patrice on Wooka in for Chris. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to call foul on the WMBA.

“I'm sure you've seen this story. It's going viral right now. A head of Wednesday night's matchup in this is in the WMBA between the Dallas wings and the Atlanta dream.”

Accordingly, you've got two of the leagues, most well-known players, Dallas, the Dallas's page boogers or buckers, and Atlanta's Angel Reese. Angel Reese is no stranger to controversy.

They look her up, look up her nails, or look up how much she makes in a week, you will understand the joke. But in short, these two players, they have a good relationship, I guess, off the court. And they decided to make a wager on the game.

“Well, that's wrong. That's not appropriate, even according to the WMBA's rules, and they were just smart enough to make this wager on social media and to post it.”

Well, you would think the story would stop there, obviously, that's going to go viral, but what really made the story go viral is that the WMBA's official ex-account reposted the video. And I don't know who's running their social media.

I hope that person has been relieved of duties at this point, but you know what? It's so silly. Let me play this clip for you so you can hear the video for yourself. Let's play cut three.

This is on the rich state rich. You got to say this money. I'm going to see you next week on Wednesday. No, you owe me one. So there you go. That is Angel Reese, and her good buddy page bookers, you know, wagering $400. Now, listen, there's there are a lot of stupid things going on here. Obviously, wagering on, you shouldn't be gambling, but wagering on your own game that you're playing in, that's one thing. And then you're doing it on social media. That's another. And then the WMBA resharing it. If the WMBA wants some parity with the NBA, then hold these two women accountable. Let's see if that happens. Stay with us. It's the Christian.

“But you need to know, for this summer's welcome. How special is it that we've been able to follow this young group of guys? It's been such a roller coaster of emotion.”

You can feel the intensity white a bit of time energy ever everything along the way on these guys, making the country proud. And I think they will listen. The US soccer podcast presented by Henkel. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.