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J.D.

Hey, Bo. Good afternoon, man.

Man, good afternoon to you, too, sir. How you doing today?

Man, I'm about to pull my hair out. Well, I got to tell you, man, you rolled right into this digital room right here. Did you have a good Thanksgiving? Did you eat a lot? Yeah, I did. I did. You know, the problem with this time of year is that, you know, being a retailer, you know, it's not really the holiday season. It's more like, I don't know,

it's just running the gauntlet, right? Yeah. You just got a lot going on. So it's a fun time. It's

exciting, but it's also, you know, where everyone's else is kind of taking, you know, three and four

day weekends and eating a whole bunch and, you know, sitting

back watching football and all that kind of stuff. You're, you know, we're typically, we're typically

not doing that. Oh, man. Yeah, that's right. It's wide open. We ran a Black Friday, Cyber Monday

kind of sale for a few days here. And yeah, man, it's just been full

throttle. It has been. So we are so grateful, so excited, but we're very tired. Anyway, sending pipes

all over the world, which has been a lot of fun and blending up a whole lot of tobacco,

including a lot of our Christmas blends, which are still available, by the way. So anyway, just rocking and rolling, man, trying to make it work. Yeah, man, the holiday season, no rest for the retail. That is, that is absolutely true. It's brutal, man. I don't think people really understand that. You know, if you ever get into the retail business, you kind of just have to know going into it that this time of year, you're just, um're just torched. I mean, you really are. It's just, you know, it's a, it's a wild time of year or so. And this year particularly, I think, I don't know if there's a lot of pinup demand or like if it's, for whatever reason, it's just been, been really active. So we're, anyway, we're very thankful, man. We're, you know, paying some bills, making sure the,

the employees are fed, and, you know, diapers are bought, and the rent's paid and all that

kind of stuff. And we're, we're very thankful, but we're burning the candle at both ends.

No doubt. Man, I got a chance to see you in action for like two seconds. That was wild, man. I looked up from the midst of my, you know, just stupor of, you know, having my nose down to the grindstone. And there's Beau. And he's in my shop. And, you know, it was so funny, I was like, hey, what are you doing here? You know, it was really great, you know, one of those things where I just, I had totally forgotten you were coming in town. Yeah, it's like the brain can't quite compute. Like, you're not supposed to be here. No, right. It just doesn't make sense. But, yeah, it was really great to see me. And thanks for coming by the shop. I yeah, in the middle of the fog, I just couldn't quite, you know, compute what was happening. But it was great, man, came by and got to hug your neck and spend literally about 45 seconds with you. If even that. Look, we'll talk about it a little bit more because it sets up beautifully what we're going to be talking about. Yeah, no, that's right.

That's right. Before we dive into it, there's a couple things we need to talk about.

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