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It was just a beautiful day in the Phoenix area on Monday, and we were driving down the road

coming back from running a couple of baby errands. Yes.

Buying baby diapers and formula and supplies in case the little man comes home. We're hoping on Thanksgiving Day.

The little guy will make it home out here. And it's a beautiful day. We've got the windows down. We're driving along and Jessica looks up into the sky. It's towards sunset, and you can see all these big jumbo jets flying into Phoenix.

It's amazing how far you can see out here around the valley. It's a vast valley, vast area.

In a very busy airport, it's not uncommon to look far off into the distance, I mean, way off into the distance,

and see several airplanes lined up as little

tiny dots in the sky. And Jessica says, well, I don't know exactly what the words were that she used,

but she said, you poor sons of a gun stuck up there in those airplanes traveling this holiday

week. The airports must be a nightmare. This after we get issued a warning, not a warning, a recommendation by Secretary Duffy

to dress a little nicer, be a little kinder, greet other people and say thank you and

hello at the airport.

All great advice, but it's being mocked and made fun of because somehow we've moved past

being a civilization and just being automated people that just roll around and bounce off things and do their own thing and ignore every human there is. This was really brought to my attention as we were shopping in Walmart and I'm guilty of it. I'm first and foremost guilty of all this. I didn't say hi really to

anybody there. I think when I first walked in that there were two greeters working there.

They had some sort of Russian accents or something. They were old guys like in their 70s,

retired Walmart greeters, and they were talking in English with accents. Normally I would say

hi to the greeter or whatever and not necessarily say hi to anybody in the store, but I saw a couple people that had their dogs in their buggies at Walmart, which I didn't know you could do. And I stopped to the dogs. They go, oh, look at this cute little dog. And I don't ever reach and try to pet him because you don't know whose dogs, what you know, whatever. I what a cute little dog and I said to jesska what a cute little dog it's unbelievable that we will

maybe it's just us we'll recognize a dog but not recognize another human being and maybe there's a

lesson in this as it's Thanksgiving week and maybe we're starting to think about the holidays and

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