Hayley Caronia

I don't know when would be the right time to come out about this.

I guess he says right now is not the time.

I'm assuming the family is reeling.

I couldn't imagine...

the, you know, what Christie's going through.

Not that this is probably a surprise to her, but I think, you know, it being outed to the public, it was a surprise.

And I don't know if his adult children know.

And, you know, when their grandchildren grow up, they're going to have to wrestle with the fact that their photos of their grandfather are out, you know, like that, how we just saw him, which is really concerning.

But the New York Times took an interesting way of covering this story.

They went to the hometown.

They went to Castlewood, South Dakota, and they interviewed a lot of people in the town, people who know the gnomes.

And they said that everyone really felt very sorry for Brian.

They didn't feel sorry for Christy, but they were feeling sorry for him.

And they kind of made this, or they try to turn this into an attempt to make Kristi Noem look like the bad guy in all of this, I think.

Both of them are probably at fault, but I kind of feel sorry for both of them at the same time.

And the New York Times interviewed this one person and it says this quote, one person who has known the gnome family for many years is Brad Johnson, a real estate appraiser, conservationist and newspaper columnist who splits his time between Watertown and Rapid City.

And he said this, people know Byron.

I keep saying Byron because he spells Brian wrong.

In my opinion, B-R-Y-O-N.

No.