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I'm here all by myself today.

Janice Spangler and Britt Hartley are both away.

And so this week, I was in charge of coming up with something.

And I've been thinking because my wife and I just got back from the Grand Canyon.

And on the way home, great trip, great vacation.

The Grand Canyon is absolutely gorgeous. And on the way home, my wife and I had an argument. And it was

one of these where both people are adamant that the other person was being hurtful towards them.

And both people understood the situation very different in what was happening.

And both, like, once we figured it out, we realized like both sides really genuinely were like,

hey, I didn't see that coming. I wasn't expecting

that thing to happen. And I didn't see the situation the way you did. And the way I understood

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