Welcome to the Bowl work podcast. I'm Charlie Sakes. Oh my God. It is September 1st, 2023.

Uh, it's Friday. At least we have a long weekend, Tim. I mean, I, I'm looking forward to

a long weekend, you? I love a long weekend. I do. I get sad at the end of the summer.

You know, I love summer. Not done yet. I know it's three weeks. Fall people. If you're a fall

person, I just close your ears for a second because I don't get fall people. I just don't get it.

It's like, you know, I have this just childhood, maybe trauma, you know, that bubbles up inside of me,

just this feeling that happens in my gut. That's like, I know I have to go back to school right now.

School's coming. So anyway, that's it. I'm going to have a great weekend, unless you tag us

or back. That's beautiful here in Louisiana. We're going to have a great time. It's going to be a

nice three day weekend. I actually love fall because it's beautiful here in the beautiful Midwest. We

have all the colors. We have the like, finally, the gold. No, it's based. It is, it is, it is beautiful.

But that was that whole back to school thing. You know, you sort of go back to back and forth

remembering how excited you were the first day of school versus the anxiety of like holy crap.

I have to go back to school. Yeah. Hey, I got to tell you first time in decades,

walked the grandson to the bus this morning. It happened first day. It happened.

That's so exciting. Was that when was it today? This morning. This morning. Oh,

Friday is kind of a weird day. First day of school. It's just like a little orientation situation.

It's kind of brilliant. You ease into the year by starting on Friday. Then you have a three day

weekend and then you dive in next week. So it's a very French schedule, actually. So it's a nice

way to start a little bed. But you know, I mean, the whole, you know, back to school thing and,

you know, get the get the school supplies and everything. And it's even more exciting when it's not

you. I definitely hear that. Can we do something a little bit unusual? Can we start off with

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