What is up guys, I am Jay Faroujia and this is episode 500.

I want to thank each and every one of you who have been with me since day one listening

to this podcast nine years ago, it was April 3rd 2014 that we launched our first episode

and so many of you have stuck with me since day one and were with me you know even years

before that with you know some of you still listening actually came to my gym years

ago 20 years ago in Jersey some of you were following me online 20 years ago but whenever

you came on board I want to thank you this is a lot of hard work goes into put out 500

episodes I think the average podcast does I should probably look this up before I hit

record an episode 500 but it's it's just a handful of episodes I don't think they make

it to to double digits even but they certainly don't make it to 20 so you know it's

no small task no small feat to get to episode 500 and again I couldn't do without you guys

if no one was listening we'd be at a business and not doing the show at all so thank you

so much you know as as episode 500 approached I thought to myself you know what's the right

what's the right way to do this what do we do do we go back through the greatest episodes

the greatest guests the greatest lessons I mean there's so many different ways you could

do it so many different directions you could take and then it started to get a little

bit overwhelming and I had so much other stuff going on I said well I don't want to

really be planning and you know thinking about this for weeks and weeks and weeks and you

know for an episode that's going to be an hour or less maybe I should have but who knows

I figured you know what it was just getting to stress me out and maybe put a little too

much pressure on me to do that so I figured I'm better actually under pressure live you

know especially shit if I was doing this in Madison Square Garden all you guys were here

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