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And I'm John David.

Katie!

Hey, Bo, good afternoon.

Good afternoon to you, too, sir.

How are you doing today?

I'm doing.

We got, all right, all right, all right. you're doing. I'm actually doing great. Yeah. And yet, like, this is intense. Yeah, this is, this is, okay, so it's, it's hard to just pull the curtain back for the listener, but because there's no curtain. Because there's no, there's a lot of nose, but there's certainly no curtain. That's true that's true point is uh man we are here it is the penultimate episode of country squire radio we are just

hours away from episode 500 that we will be recording here that's right now one of the things

that happened is we let people know about episode 500 and there was reactions,

there was news, there was emails. We've done our best to try to kind of gather a lot of those

as part of the mailbag episode for International Pipe Smoking Day. But the reality is there's

just been so much that's happened amongst like the last several weeks as some of, if I may

say, some of the best episodes of Country Squire Radio we've ever put out

have gone out to the people. I am proud. I really am proud of. Oh, listen, we'll be going

into all that tomorrow. But the thing is, in the amount of time that all of this has been building

up to the final, you know, big event, to say that folks were interested in coming is a bit of an understatement.

Is that fair to say? Yeah. I mean, let's be honest. We have been truly overwhelmed.

Yeah. And when I say overwhelmed, like, well, I mean, we literally are like, how are we going to

handle this? I mean, it's, it has been so honoring that so many people have come. And, and, and they're excited to be here. Yeah. And, and, like, we're sitting in the room right now with someone from Canada. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Major shots out to Ben from Canada, who is literally the reason why people will be able to hear us tomorrow. I know. Isn't that crazy? I mean, like, it's so great. It's awesome. Well, hey, so this is the thing, though, right? Because of the massive amount of folks that are coming in.

Yeah. Isn't that crazy? I mean like... It's so great. It's awesome. Well, hey, so this is the thing, though, right? Because of the massive amount of folks that are coming in, the event in many respects is still taking place at the Squire, but the show literally outgrew the Squire shop itself. It did. You know, I'm proud of our shop and we've got ample space for a normal event, but this quickly got out of control. Yes. And so we are in a shopping center called the quarter on Lakeland Drive. Not to be confused with the French Quarter. Not to be confused with the French Quarter, although it was designed to be like the French Quarter, a very cheap imitation of the French Quarter. Look, I have seen some cheap imitations of the French Quarter. Like the pheasant run hotel in Chicago. It's the first one that comes to mine. And that is so bad. That is the most, the only thing more are possibly as insulting as the, that that is the one that Disneyland has in the quarter section. Really? Yes, because like it's all like, like. We took our kids there. I mean, this is an aside.

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