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Welcome to Squire Radio on Bo. And I'm John David. Hey, Bo. Good evening, man. Man, good evening to you, sir. How are you doing? I'm doing great, man. It's an exciting day here at the Country Squire. Man, just so much going on. I feel like, you know, it's already into 2017, and I'm still kind of planning the year out. And so, you know, I wasn't able to get a lot of that done at the end of last year. And so, man, just looking forward to a lot of cool events we've got coming up over the next several months. Oh, man. Yeah, it's going to be fun. So anyway, more to be told at a future date. But I'm really excited. I think this is going to be a fun year. That's awesome, man. I, you know, I got to give you some props. When I walked into the store

today, uh, I noticed something that was a little different than usual. Yeah, what's up? What's up? Everything is extremely clean. The floors are clean. The counters are clean. I mean, I know this is a podcast.

It's so weird.

But like everything.

It actually, you, uh, uh, you, uh, you had a friend helping out.

Stephen was, uh, working today.

I did.

I did.

Steve, you, you had a friend helping out. Stephen was working

today. I did. I did. Steve, my buddy, Stephen, he lives here locally. And when Caleb can't work,

Stevens decided and agreed to pinch hit. So he's a lot neater than we are. A big time.

Like, he was, he was like scrubbing the counters. Like, like, I'm talking about like almost with a toothbrush. You understand. He's getting real in there making sure these things shining. He, he was the one that said, you know, you got to be careful in this shop, because if you spill some water on the floor, it'll leave a clean spot. There's really something to that, you know? I have had customers when they've seen me cleaning on the rare occasions that I do, and they have threatened to leave because the shop may get too clean. Right, right. And, you know, that's part of the, that's part of the ambiance, right? Yeah, this dust has been here since the founding of this country. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, people pay good money for that. Yeah, yeah. The prestigious ages happened here. There's probably dinosaur bones, not buried underneath, just in the store. No, in the shop. We won't know because of the clutter, but, but one way at the other, they're probably, I'm just kidding, mad. It's a, it's a beautiful shop. This reminds me. Have I told our listeners about the exchange I had with one of our neighbors here in the quarter that... Oh, wait. Are you talking about your beef? Beef? The beef with the next... No, no, no. No, no. No, no. No, no. No, there's another one. Yeah. So there's a, there's a, uh, well, we'll just, we won't call out any names, but, uh, that one of our neighbors, uh, had some major surgery or something at one point and was on these crazy pain medicines and was just going nuts.

And she came down here in a fury one day and she said, this is when Mrs. Reeves owned the shop.

It's been at least four years, but she looked at Ms. Gwen and she said, you need to know that I know that you're hiding Civil War artifacts from the public, and I demand you release them immediately. And, like, you know, of course, Mrs. Reeves at the time was 89 years old. She was like, oh, really? Are there something like that in our shop? Right. So, like, they went digging around and all the coverage and stuff and I I got to work, and they pulled out all this stuff. And one of the, I mean, because one of the neighbors had threatened, you know, to reveal that we were hiding priceless Civil War artifacts. It belongs in a museum. Yeah, pretty much. At that point, the shop was basically a museum anyway. Right. It was just so funny. Yeah. So anyway, that's the kind of shop you come in when you might find Christmas decorations here from

1973.

Yeah, no, they're probably in here somewhere.

Hey, we've got to make mention of something, you know, a couple episodes back.

We mentioned that this podcast was actually nominated for a best local podcast award

here in Jackson, Mississippi. We did not win, but we wanted to thank everyone who nominated us.

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