Hello and welcome to choose a fine welcome to episode 500 it's incredible we've been doing this for

seven and a half years at this point and interestingly we've actually published over 660 episodes because way back in the day we used to do the round up episodes

but 500 is a nice round number and has a nice ring to it and I thought that this would be a perfect time to redo

our episode 100 which was really our welcome to the Fai community where we send people

when they were getting started or

honestly people who are just looking for a refresh people who are looking to

start over with FIE and maybe get reacquainted with the main background of what we're doing here.

So I think this is going to be a good one and thank you for supporting the Choose of

I community and together we're creating what we call the ultimate crowdsource personal finance show.

Thanks for being here.

Welcome to Choose That Buy. All right, so like I said, this is episode 500 and just to introduce myself, which I realize I don't do very often. I am Brad Barrett. I am now the solo host of

Chooza Phi. I'm the co-founder. My other founder Jonathan Madansa was with me for well over 500 episodes here on the

podcast. We're still great friends, business partners, all that stuff so he is here

with us in spirit and it's fun actually going back and listening to some of the old episodes because we were

Certainly a yin and yang where he was the much more excitable version

and I was the more calm, sedate one

who tried to provide some wisdom.

So I'm gonna maybe channel my inner Jonathan

here today a little bit.

So yeah, I guess to give a little background on me,

I was a CPA.

So I went to college, I got an accounting degree,

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