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Welcome to Country Squire Radio.

And I'm John David.

J.D.

Hey, Bo, good afternoon, man.

Man, good afternoon to you too, sir.

How you doing today?

Man, doing good. Yeah, doing good. It's been a bit busy, you know, around the old shop and, man, just slinging a lot of pipe tobacco and online sales are picking up a little bit for Father's Day, so that's kind of fun. But yeah, just selling a lot of pipes, selling a lot of gifts. And, you know, it's, it's really hot in central Mississippi.

We complain about this every time, this time of year. And, and so, you know, I've just, you know,

when you're outside, you just, it's hard sometimes to power through your pipe. And, you know,

you just have to smoke something really strong and, and get to the point. And then, and then go

inside and take a, take a ice bath.. So and it's only June. Well, I mean, the nice thing about the country squire is, you know, with, you know, with us, everybody kind of returning back to the world all vaccinated and ready, ready to rock. People are congregating again. And man, the squire is such a great place to do it because you can escape the heat while also enjoying your pipe. Dude, you escape the heat, but you know, at the squire you fall into your own, a different type of heat. That's true. When you come to the shop, you have to, I've just been noticing this more and more, the thicker the skin, you have to, if you're going to become a regular at the country squire, you just kind of have to

have this shell around you. And I've been so proud of Quinn, our new employee who's been

quarterback in our mail orders and is doing such a good job updating our website and everything.

But, man, he's learning quickly. You just got to throw it right back,

man. People throw it at you. You got to throw it back. So, um, so it's, uh, it's good. I'm proud of, proud of him. Good stuff, man. I'm, uh, you know, looking forward. I don't, you know, it was funny because, you know, obviously I just got back from this little, uh, family, uh, family vacation. We were down at the beach.

And we got back.

We're starting to think about holidays

and trying to figure out

when I'm going to make it back to Jackson.

And honestly,

I just don't even know. I have no clue when I'm going to make it back to Jackson. My guess is it won't be anytime soon. But I am going to be up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which I'm really excited about, man. This is in about two weeks, I think, from when this episode goes live uh we'll be heading out that way and i have yet to reach out to the the pipe community there i need to i guess that i'll put that this is the official reach out i'll i'll make sure to send out an email on a few texts uh to see uh who all might be available to hang out for a little bit but yeah man this was something i used to do like to do, like on an annual basis. And, you know, then we moved to Houston and then, you know, we moved to Houston and then the world shut down. And so now we're, yeah, we're ready to get back back at it and visit the in-laws up there and see the good folks up in Grand Rapids. So, well, it would be good, man. A lot of good friends up there.

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