Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Breaking news, the Federal Reserve has held interest rate steady as predicted following 15 months of interest rate hikes. They did signal they would

likely resume tightening, projecting more increases this year, but pausing them right now, holding

steady. So there you have it. That is the breaking news happening right now. There is a story out that I had missed, and my buddy Ryan, who's meteorologist, put this on my radar.

You hear a lot of data these days about screwed up kids that lockdowns impacted the mental health of kids and

there's a whole lot of concern in the mainstream media right now about the

mental health of children who have been locked down and isolated.

You also will hear the left worry about the mental health of their children who may or may not be transgender based on acceptance of transgenderism.

I would note the data shows, however, that regardless of where one lives in the country,

there is still a notable suicide rate for those who identify as trans, even in communities where there is full acceptance,

which suggests there's actually something else going on there related to mental health.

And mental health is the concern

and everybody addresses the mental health concern what we don't talk about enough is

progressive parents screwing up their children I take you now to Helena, Montana, a high school athlete who, along with 15 other young people,

took Montana to court over climate change.

Testified Tuesday that increased smoke from forest fires makes it difficult for him to compete and a doctor prescribed an inhaler to help his breathing.

Micah Cantor, 15, says he has been worried

about climate change since as a four-year-old he dictated a letter to Senator John

Tester of Montana because he was too young to write it himself. He says it's increasingly

difficult to run or go on hikes with his family,

and the warmer conditions have shortened snowboarding season. He testified on day two of a first-of-its-kind

trial in which the 16 young Montana residents are arguing the state is violating their

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