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 Dependent Sports,

episode 550.

550 is kind of a landmark, I guess, kind of a milestone.

I don't know, I have nothing special planned.

It's a regular Thursday.

In fact, actually to Burst or bubble, I recently moved the show over from one

podcast hosting site to another, so it's on different servers and stuff and I'd migrate it all over.

They let me know my count is actually off. This is technically like 558, something like that.

I used to not have numbers on the episode and like 200, 300, I don't remember. There's some point where I migrated over from

posting the date to posting just a number and I guess I miscounted whenever that

happened so technically like it's actually 558 we hit our milestone like eight episodes ago a

hilarious little nuance that no one really cares about but I think is funny.

Welcome in. I want to start by saying I got a comment from someone recently asking like

Why do you use curtains behind you? Isn't it boring something like that? I think people don't understand

I'm in a concrete room like every single wall of this room is concrete and I don't know if you've ever

tried to record a podcast in a concrete room it's a horrible horrible idea. The only way to make it work is to put black, you know,

blackout curtains on every single wall to dead in the sound. And if I'm

totally honest, I really missed the days of recording in a pickup truck like people hated when I recorded on a pickup truck and people find ways to complain about the background on YouTube no matter what I do

But oh my goodness I I really miss the acoustics of that truck setup. Best audio I've ever had in my entire life.

And you know if anyone doesn't like the background I apologize. I'm working on it. I'm trying.

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