Oh my goodness, good morning, good afternoon.

Whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day.

My name is Zach Schumler, This is Strong Opinion Sports episode 499, one away from episode 500.

And I've got kind of a unique special plan for episode 500, a very self-indulgent episode I don't know it's

been kind of a pain in the butt because I've had to schedule ahead like 10 episodes

now to make sure I don't I hit it just right so that I can do

kind of an evergreen weird episode 500 you might like it you might not I don't

really know I'm just gonna talk about the weird journey it's been over the last five years doing this

podcast. But five years in, we have now reached episode 500, but one away. That's pretty

insane. Also, if you're watching on YouTube, I don't think it's a big deal but I shaved

like at 3 a.m. today and I made a mistake I got a different trimmer like an electrical trimmer and it said

You know the two setting was and I thought the two setting be the same as the two setting on my old one

Nope. It's a much closer shave so two setting me the same as a two setting on my old one.

Nope, it's a much closer shave.

So basically I'm down to like stubble.

And I think it looks actually kind of good.

I might go with this look more often, to be totally honest.

But if you're like, now look, no. this look nobody in the

nobody in the world has noticed this but if you think I look kind of

weird today it's because I basically shaved off most of my beard and I feel very

exposed on my face it's kind of I don't, it's not like have a real beard anyway,

but I just, I'm down to like stubble

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