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And I'm John David.

J.D.

Hey, Bo.

My voice is like, I've been struggling.

You're doing good, though.

You know, you're emphasizing things when you need to and reserving when you can. It's rough, man. It's rough. I'm trying to, it's actually probably for the benefit of the listener that I'm trying to like hold back on these final episodes.

Yeah. Just reel it in. Real it in. I was telling you it's frustrating because I can't go go up the octave that I want to go up. I'm stuck in the baritone, which is cool because I remember in the early days of Country Squire Radio when we would pre-record like, oh, that's funny. Like pre-rolls and studge. Right. I would always, this podcast is brought to you by the Country Squire for their unparalleled customer service. I would always wait until after I was sick so that my voice was like down at that like base active. But it's rough because I've always been able to go, you know, tenor and bass. So I've always been bisexual. And at the moment, but it's difficult. You don't, you don't even know. You're not bisexual. You've never been bisexual. It is difficult to not be bisexual in 2023. And so like as I find myself right now stuck with this baritone and like I want to be able like for, you know, I mean, spoilers ahead. But we're going to have quick fire questions this episode. And I won't be able to say quick fire questions. You know, like it's going to cut me off. I can't even do that. You're more bisexual than I am.

Hey man, we've got an awesome episode to talk about this week. I'm really excited to be jumping into it.

Hey, we are in the final episodes, the final weeks here of Country Squire Radio, but we are building up to a big event coming your way.

That is right. So March 4th at the Country Squire in Jackson, Mississippi, we will be doing our episode 500 live from the Country Squire. It's going to have barbecue and pipe tobacco pairing. We're going to have live music. It's going to be fun. We've already kind of been thinking about some of the behind-the-scenes stories, things that we've never shared on air before that we're going to be sharing there. Some of which may be cut before you can hear it on the podcast. So you're going to want to be there. You're absolutely going to want to be there for this event. It is a pipe pilgrimage like none other. Help us celebrate 10 years of Country Squire Radio as we all bring this show to a close in epic proportions together. Yes. Head over to the country squire online.com.

There's a banner there where you'll be able to see all the details. There's also one available at countrysquare radio.com. Get your tickets. Come join us. We would love to have you there. Gosh, I'm so, you know, we're in the home stretch here. That's right. It is really exciting, man. I have so many great memories about the past 10 years and just as we get to relive them and all the things we're thankful for. And we get to enjoy it with you guys. Tell you what, it's episode 500 and if 500 of y'all show up, we'll do, no, I'm just kidding. No, we'll do 500 more. Don't you promise that. Don't you promise that. That's not true. It's not true. Oh, my goodness. Suddenly, all of a sudden, like, boom, the tickets sales. I know. Man, I'm really looking forward to please go and purchase your tickets, though. And that's going to cover your food and any other of the little, it helps cover the music and all that stuff too.

Also, it'll help us plan for, you know, obviously how many people are going to be there.

That's right. Our little shop's going to have to get creative about space management that day.

We'll see. I mean, you know, some people are just going to want to come and throw tomatoes at us and that sort of thing.

They might leave right after. Yeah, no, that's right. That's right. It's probably worth a drive to do that. It's going to be really fun, man. I think it'll be great. Hey, we are this week, we're doing the final from the library. Now, I think it's worth doing a little exploration or a little bit of history here. So from the library, one of our newer series that we introduced last year. Yeah, yeah. The concept here, as we were thinking through, you know, where we wanted to take the show was we wanted to showcase conversations that you might have in the space of a mom-and-pop pipe tobacco shop, the kind of conversations that happen in the country squire that have happened in the country squire, know be able to pack your pipe listen to an episode like this and join in with some

contemplative conversation i will remember of the various ones that we kind of kicked around

you know the uh the most self-serving of course being the you know the the the finer things

series i know i know hey that straight razor shave episode was pretty cool.

That was pretty odd.

That was pretty baller.

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