The other day I was traveling somewhere out of state, I remember I was maybe in Colorado or something.

My family, the other four, they were in Sioux Falls.

So, okay, I had a dual geography.

I live in South Dakota, on the far west side of South Dakota

by Mount Rushmore and the mountains and everything is Rapid City. That's where we live.

And then the far east side of the state is the other big city in South Dakota and that is Sioux Falls.

And by big city, I mean like 150 to 200,000 in the whole metro area these aren't huge

towns but it's kind of an odd layout sort of a dumbbell shape for the

population distribution of the state so that gives you a sense of how spread out we are

so it's a kind of thing where we would of course want to catch up with each other and

I fired up a phone call to the family when I got a break I was like hey how's the day

going everything's over there and I could tell that my daughter was really excited and she's like well check your phone and she fired me a picture and I look at the picture and it's my daughter's hanging out with the governor of South Dakota,

Christy Nome.

Now, while I'm offering no political judgment one way or the other in this conversation

about Christy Nome as a governor,

I was still really pleased to hear the account of how she

interacted with my daughters when they were brave enough to walk up to her in

at Costco and be like I think you're a governor who just wanted to say hi she was great she treated my

kids well so that's cool but here's the thing if I had called them and been like well

you know how well how is your day and they were like oh you know we went to Costco

and we did some other things

and shopped a little bit and we got lunch and now we're going home and they just

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