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Welcome to Catch Squire Radio. I'm Bo. And I'm John David. J.D. Hey, Bo. Good evening, man. Man, how you doing tonight? I'm doing great. I'm doing great, man. Things are just rocking and rolling, you know. It's a busy time of year kind of, you know, easing on into, you know, the fall season and everything. And we're, yeah, we're just trying to keep it between the ditches right now.

Well, the reality is, man, of course, we are easing into the fall season, but gosh, we're here in Mississippi where the summer is still going strong. It's long, man, I know it. It's a hot time of year. And so we've got a hot topic that I think a lot of people are going to really enjoy. No, I'm not talking about the retail hot topic

where you get your latest various gothic products and such. No, I'm talking about... I like that.

It was good. Yeah, it's good. Now, I'm talking about the heat, man. It's hot outside. And so,

we've got a special episode. We're doing something a little bit different this week. We've assembled a panel of tobacco specialists. I'm talking about enthusiasts who know

a lot about living in the keat. We actually had Mark VV and Pylorns coming into town. And I had

the great opportunity to sit down with them as fellow brothers of the briar, fellow fans of pipe tobacco, and fellow Southerners to discuss what it is like to enjoy your pipe or try to enjoy your pipe during the summers. Best practices, great discussion. I think people are going to really like it. We've got a, this is really exciting. We've got a crack team assembled here, ladies and gentlemen. This is going to be a fun

topic and we got some fun voices. Let me go ahead and bring them on board. So of course, you know them and we love

them. And that's true for both these gentlemen. But first off, he's the founder of the pipe tool,

a prolific digital mind in the pipe and tobacco world, somebody who we've had on the show several times.

And of course, the biggest claim to fame of all is responsible for helping us find the pipe mic logo, the creation of the pipe mic logo.

Of course, I'm talking about James, aka Pylorans. Welcome.

Thanks, Bo.

Pleasure to be here once again.

Yeah, always happy to have you on the show.

But you're not alone because I can't believe this. We actually have the man, the myth, the legend, a very prolific member of the pipe community and of course the Country Squire radio community. He's been listening since the earliest days, always very active on the live shows and has even done some interning here and there and sometimes writing show notes, sometimes not writing show notes, but always a very welcome member of the Country Square radio community. Of course, I'm talking about Mr. Mark VV. What's going on? Do you pronounce your last name for the people? Van Vrenken. That's what we call them, Mark VV. Yep.

Yeah, we're not known for much, but we are known for mispronouncing names.

That is our claim to fame.

Gentlemen, you know, aside from the fact that, you know, we're all big pipe fans and, you know,

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