Hey, hey, welcome back to the Alyssa show. I know we've had a couple weeks off. We had Todd's

surgery and then we still had Todd surgery. And we had a family vacation in between, which was

really nice to be able to check out. Highly recommend it. It was only a couple days, but I

highly recommend it. I am addressing the elephant in the room. I realize I look

kind of haggardly. Graham is back in DC this week. I have a house full of children, which is amazing

and I love it. So if you hear wild screaming or yelling, it's just my children, no worries. So

I am pure chaos today. I'm inviting you into my chaos. I've had multiple appointments,

pretty much an Uber driver. I know Graham told you our boys got jobs at Chick-fil-A, which is another

side rant that I may have to do. I realize it says, Dear America in the back and not the Alyssa show,

I don't know what I'm doing. Okay. Graham has been two weeks off and then Graham was my producer and I got spalled.

Okay?

I got a little spalled. And we're just going to have to go back to Alyssa's running it today. And that could be quite interesting for us all. Again, welcome into the chaos. But we're going to do it. We got a lot to talk about. I feel like the world has imploded since I have been gone for two weeks and I only get again one day.

But if you're having a good summer, let me know my dear America family, how y'all are doing. Do a thumbs up in the chat if you have been good. If you are having a good summer, thumbs down, if you're going through some tough times. I'm sorry about that, but I would love to hear how you are doing. I'm going back to the Chick-fil-A because I can't let it go. I'm sorry about that, but I would love to hear how you are doing. Um, I'm going back to

the Chick-fil-A because I can't let it go. I'm sorry. This wasn't in my notes, but Graham got a lot of

flack for saying that our boys who are 14 and 15 got jobs. I am super incredibly proud of them.

Uh, we are trying to teach them the value of hard work, of an honest

days wage, you know, the strengths that come with that and pride, both pride and then of

course the monetary value at the end of a hard day's work. It teaches discipline. I just think

it's very good and it shocked to how many people even some of my friends

who are like alissa kids need to be kids let them be kids they have to work their whole life

some of that i see but then the other side is okay when are you going to teach them the value of

discipline of hard work my personal issue is we are keeping children too young in America. We keep backing it up.

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