Welcome to Connected, Episode 139.

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My name is Stephen Hackett, and I'm joined this week by my co-host,

Federico Vitici. Hello. Hi. Hey, buddy. How are you? I'm good. We are a micless today.

I was just with Mike and Atlanta. We're going to get to that in a minute. But he just got back to his

house like an hour ago or something. So he is, I think, dead. So just me and you, but

we have a special guest for at least part of the show this week in the very handsome,

shockingly tall Casey List. That's not even true. Federico's taller than I am, but hello,

gentlemen, how are you? Am I? I, I don't know. Oh, good, there are. I feel like, so the listeners will, you can picture this in your mind's eye.

If you're, unless you're driving. If you're driving, keep your eyes on the road.

But if you're at home, close your eyes. And imagine Casey and Federico meeting at WBC.

And one of the first things they did was staying back to back to see who was taller. I think Federico edged him out.

How can you even remember this?

Yeah, I don't remember that at all.

It was, uh, it was amazing.

I think I was just swimming in, in Federico's Italian charm.

And I didn't, in time had no meaning.

It both stood still and ran much faster than it ever has before.

This is so much more romantic that it actually happened.

I'm not sure this is the truth at all, but it's good to have you on the showcase.

Yeah, so we could call me Mikeliss today if you'd like.

But yeah, well, tad jokes, they're a thing but uh we have some

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