All right, good morning, good afternoon, whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day.

My name is Zach Schomler, this is Strong Opinion Sports episode 488.

Welcome in to my new office.

Hello everyone.

We're at a...

I'm not going to tell you where I'm parked.

I'm parked in a parking lot. I got trees behind me and this is the new setup. I'm learning new recording equipment today.

I've never recorded anything with this device here.

I recorded one episode of Zach Shalmer talking with other podcasts with a different piece of

equipment.

It went well, but I was borrowing it for my dad, well, this came in the mail, got this today. Here we are doing the best I can I want to be

clear it's a work in progress I'm still figuring things out I am still figuring how to make it look the best and what I'm doing.

Like I'm recording in a pickup truck.

It's not gonna ever look like I'm not recording in a pickup truck.

But I think that's kind of the fun of it.

Maybe someday there's mountains behind me or the Arizona desert or who knows what is going to be in the background of all these different episodes.

But here we are today. I want you to know that I built

the desk that I'm recording on I built drawers in the back of my truck I'm still

waiting on the canopy once the canopy gets here I'm gonna take my truck on the canopy. Once the canopy gets here I'm going to take my

truck on the road and live out of it and that'll be super fun. I I expect

someday security is going to knock on my door and want to talk to me and that'll be part of the

podcast and be like yeah I'm here in a parking lot recording and that'll be

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