This is connected.

Episode 141.

Today's show is brought to you so kindly by Encapsula and Away.

My name is Mike Hurley and I am so happy to say that the band is back together.

We have the frontman, Mr. Federico, for teaching

hi Federico, and producer slash songwriter slash drummer, Stephen Hacker. I've never been a drummer,

but I did play bass in high school and college. I don't see you as a drummer. So close. No,

bassist. I went with like, I don't know. I didn't want to say he was a guitarist.

I don't know why.

So I just went with drama.

It was, I was maybe angling towards like trumpet or something, but I just couldn't think of a funny enough instrument.

I see Stephen Moore as a producer slash impresario of sorts, you know?

Sounds about right.

Like frontman, hype man we have we have big news

big big news to start the show the first link in the show notes if you go to your app right now

go to the web page relay dot fm slash connected slash 141. There is a link to an

event bright page where we have tickets up to the public now for our Chicago show on Sunday,

October 15th. This is the show we're doing in conjunction with the release notes conference.

Most of the tickets went to release notes attendees, but there are a handful

left available to the public. So if you want one and you're still listening to me,

then you need to stop and click the link because they're probably already gone.

Yeah, it's too late. If you wait to the end of that sentence, it's too late.

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