Welcome to Down to Dunk. This is episode 1,001. By the way, we've got these balloons behind

me if you're on the stream. I thought about getting a one and then getting all the numbers

and just keep on just putting on a new balloon number after I've personally left. I'm

your host Andrew Schlecht with me today. As always, on Mondays is my good friend, McKelle,

what is up? Well, new millennium, apparently. So I'm glad to be on episode 1,001. That is awesome.

I just continue to be overwhelmed by the response to our 1,000th episode of keep getting emails

and DMs and tweets. You shouldn't be. It is overwhelming to me and I feel so blessed

and just honored to be able to do this. And for it to mean something to so many people,

I mean, it's just, it has blown me away and it's been so great to do. I'm glad that we did it

the way we did it because I, I don't know, it was really great. It was really life giving to me.

And then there's people that there's tons of people I miss shouting out, but the one that I didn't

shout out that I felt the most bad about all weekend. And this is how my brain works. It's like,

we do this really fun episode. And then I just think about the things I didn't do on it all weekend.

I didn't shout out John Ham on the, on that pod. And I have, it's my biggest regret because John

Ham was on our Wednesday show. It was Hot Ham Wednesday every week. He provided a lot of content for us,

you know, through the years. And then when the dream team started, you know, kind of took him,

took him out of the rotation just so that we could have, you know, exclusivity with him on, in like,

podcast form over there. So, but yeah, big shout to John Ham. He's been a good friend to me. He's

been a great podcast host for After Dark. If you listen to that, he and McKelle do a really good job.

This flabbergast that you guys recorded 27 minutes for this last episode. I looked at that. There's

been very few things that have, like, just knocked me out whenever I look at like the podcast speed.

But that was one of them. I was like 27 minutes. I listened to all 27 minutes. It was great.

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