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Welcome to Country Squire Radio on Bo.

And I'm John Dave.

Janie!

Hey, Bo, good afternoon, man. And a good afternoon to you, too, sir. How are you doing it back? Man, you know, I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. It's been a very, very eventful week here. Extremely eventful. So, man, got a lot going on. If you're, of course, you know, in the pipe smoking world, you'll know that this is the, we're recording on the February 17th, but this is the week of international pipe smoking day.

So, of course, you know, we're always geared up about that.

Matter of fact, we're dedicating our episode today to that, which will be a lot of fun. There you go. Diving into the history of that and, you know, kind of the current status of the

pipe smoking day and culture. But, man, specifically to me and us here in Jackson and also the

Country Squire, our beloved shop. Yeah, man, we are, Jackson's flooded. Yeah. Okay, so we need to talk about this. Yeah, I move out to Houston. Yeah. Oh, go ahead. No, no, it's just been nuts. I mean, you're right. You know, it's, I mean, Houston deals with this kind of thing semi-regularly as well. But, you know, if you are familiar with our area, we've got this muddy little river that runs through the middle of our town.

It's the Pearl River.

And it starts kind of in northeast Mississippi and flows down through the state and then exits at the Gulf of Mexico.

It's actually that little part of Mississippi and Louisiana where the border of Mississippi and Louisiana there at the

Gulf Coast, that little squiggly line. That's the Pearl River. And it runs all the way up

through Jackson, just a muddy little river, not a whole lot going on, you know, until it floods.

And it has done this before. If you've listened to Country Squire Radio long enough, you'll know that our shop has flooded before, specifically in 1979 for the Great Easter Flood, which was just a huge deluge for our central Mississippi area,

you know, international news at the time and all that kind of stuff.

And then our area flooded again in 1983, and our shop barely escaped that time.

And what we were experiencing right now is essentially a facsimile of 1983.

So Jackson is flooding to the degree that it did that that that year.

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