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Welcome to Country Choir Radio.

And I'm John David.

J.D.

Hey, Bo, good afternoon, man.

Man, good afternoon to you, too, sir.

How are you doing today?

Man, I'm doing pretty good. I'm doing pretty good. It's, man, just getting off Labor Day weekend. And yeah, it's been a very eventful several days here and trying to stay on top of it. We're doing good, man. You know, it's funny. Labor Day is one of those holidays at a pipe shop that you're like, do I close the shop down or do we stay open?

You know, it's kind of this like on the line type thing.

We've had some years where Labor Day is a ghost town because people are out of town or on the lake or something.

And then we've had those years where Labor Day is just wide open, just crazy, because people will find themselves

bored and don't have anything else to do.

And they're like, well, let's go, you know, buy some pipe tobacco.

And I don't know, maybe a new Dunhill or something.

And, man, fortunately, that's the kind of Labor Day we had.

So it was really good, man.

A lot of folks coming by, buying some cigars and, man, hanging out around the shop and joining our community. And that was, that was encouraging. So it was good, man. Just getting into the short work week for everybody else. And, man, trying to get ready for the fall. So yeah, yeah. That's good stuff, man. What's going on with you, man? We just kicking back at the house, you know, my wife working in health care and everything. So we didn't, we didn't quite have the full on holiday from that standpoint. But, you know, it was all right. Me and I took the girls to the, to the mall, which is, you know, it was fun. They've just learned the term window shopping, so that's terrifying.

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You go to the mall and you're lucky if, quote unquote, window shop, you're lucky if, you know,

you come out with just buying an ice cream cone or something like that. Right. Now, fortunately, I think we made it out of there with a little bit of candy and that was all to it. But man, no, we had a fun time. Listen, before we kind of go through other kind of, you know, things we need to talk about, we've got a tribute coming up here. We've got, you know, a big announcement coming up a lot. Man, We got a lot of show to kick off this show with.

But, man, first, we just have to acknowledge a big thank you to Eric Stokeby for coming on. We're talking about pipe royalty featured on Country Squire Radio last week. I know, man. Yeah, no kidding. A little bit of a smaller episode than usual. But man, for the powerhouse that was featured, that was incredible. What was it like hanging out with him? Dude, it was great.

I mean, he's one of those people you come in and you was featured, that was incredible. What was it like hanging out with him? Dude, it was great.

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