Welcome in to another week and another episode of Real Conversations.

Chase Barncratic here with you recording on Friday afternoon.

You'll hear this on Sunday, hopefully early in the morning.

Sometimes I kind of get behind a little bit, Craddick over here, going to give me a little

nudge to get that bad boy out there. But hey, you get it on Sunday when we get this thing

out there. So appreciate you guys listening wherever you are. I will be taking not a few days off.

You don't really take a few days off during football season,

but I will be out of town for a few days here starting this week.

Neil has been gone for the last three or four days, and now I'm out for a few too.

So you're going to get plenty of podcasts.

You're going to get a normal schedule there on MPW Digital with our Blue Sky Lives as well. But it might not be both of us together every single day as we're getting started. So, Ben, what's up? What's up? How are you, bud? Man, I'm good. I know this whole podcast was about to be really, really good because you turned your hat about your hat around backwards.

And I'm like, here we go. Like, here we go. It's like, I tell you what it is. And this is going to be strange because, you know, I used to wear a hat all the time. I mean, I would go to school every day, cap on. It's just what I did. and as an adult, I really don't wear a cap very much

unless my hair is just so greasy and messed up

from like getting up in the morning. on. It's just what I did. And as an adult, I really don't wear a cap very much unless my hair

is just so greasy and messed up from like getting up in the morning that I need one. Or if I'm

doing the podcast and I'm going to put headphones on because I want a cap on with headphones over it.

But otherwise, I don't really wear a cap much anymore. And this is a this is my scriptum

hat that Neil put on me from the podcast a few weeks ago, Hobie, dry goods.com for, for that, that cap. It's not really a free ad. They're a subscriber, they're an advertiser already. It's fine. So, yeah, this is, this is my scriptum from, from Hobie. No, dude, it's been a, it's been a busy couple weeks. I know you got some stuff too, but this has been on my mind a little bit. I want to talk to you about it. So, you know, I had the podcast, Rennie Anderson on the 19th. We had three book signings over a seven, eight day period. We had Jackson two Tuesdays ago. You were in Oxford while I was in Jackson for the book signing because of the way

volleyball schedule was working out.

You were at Regions.

And then Oxford, just a phenomenal time.

I've mentioned this to multiple people, but seriously, can't think everybody enough who

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