you're wearing shorts i'm wearing shorts and i don't have my wedding rings oh my must be summer

must be summer my fingers swelled last night while i was on a walk oh and so i was like i have to

they're like we're getting stuck on my fingers that's that's a lot yeah and And I don't know. We all say this every summer. Yes. But it's so hot. It's so hot. And look, Jordan walked in yesterday evening and he was like, it's not even August. Like it's just June. It's June. And the truth is, like this morning kind of sort of, dare I say it, not cool, but like cooler. So you hate to complain because I actually don't think it's that hot. And everybody is always on like, it's the humidity, right? Right. And like, it is. We all know. But my door still opens. Okay. The backdoor of the bookshelf doesn't. No, it doesn't. I'm always like, is it locked?

No, I just kicked it in this morning.

Yeah, I like shoulder checked it.

Guys.

I'm hair in my mouth.

Oh.

Don't worry about it. It's fine.

So, yeah, I just, I don't know if I've seen your legs. No, probably never. Maybe once. Maybe once. I feel like I was wearing. I came to your house one time. I was gonna say, I feel like I was wearing pajama shorts one time when we recorded at my house. Soup's profession. Yep. That's us, though. We are professional podcasters. Wink, wink. Yeah. Yeah. We are not. It's summer. It's hot. I forgot to put my rings back on this morning. My fingers just swell, and then it makes me, do yours not? I don't wear rings, so I don't know. Yeah. So as I was taking a walk last night, my fingers started to swell and I was like,

these rings are going to get stuck on here forever.

That sounded to me so much like George Costanza from Seinfeld, like, these rings, baby!

Am I a George?

You might be a George.

Who out of that cast am I?

It's hard for me to say. I mean, you're not a Kramer. I wonder if I'm a Jerry. You might be a Jerry. Jerry's more of the everyman character, kind of. He's like the like antithesis of the every man in that he is the every man. Aging Jerry Seinfeld is a blandly handsome man. Sure. Yeah. Okay. Nerd with a nose.

I don't even know what to say with that.

I don't even know what to say with that. Welcome to episode 175 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.

My name is Chris Jensen, and I always forget that there's this, like, radio tower outside the window. And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore

and beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. We've got a special, a very special episode,

much like a like a 1980s PSA. I was going to say it sounds like an episode of seventh heaven.

Yeah, it's a very special episode from the front porch where we're going to talk to you about drugs and violence. No,

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