So today is an interesting day for our listeners.

Mike is away and the kids will play.

Welcome back to the show.

My favorite pinch-hitting show guest host, Stephen Hackett.

How are you, Stephen?

I feel, I'm great.

Thank you for having me.

But I feel like Mike being gone and me coming on is like, not really the kids coming out to play.

Mike's gone, so dad's here. I'll be on my best behavior, daddy, I swear. Yeah. That's not use that term again. Hi, I'm back. I love coming on analog. I don't get to do it enough. So thank you for having me.

Yeah, of course. Mike is away this week. And so I thought for fleeting moment like,

oh, who should I? No, I'll just have Stephen. It's always good when Stephen comes on. Like,

it's not even worth trying to find somebody else because I enjoy when you and I get a chance to talk

in a semi-professional capacity, you know, because often we're just goofing off

talking about cars or kids. I mean, look, there was intro music. It's going to be ads. This is a podcast,

right? This is it. We are doing the show. We are a professional podcasters. That's right. That's how it

works. And because we are professional podcasters, we have to start with follow-up and i need to plug one of your shows actually coincidentally i need to plug uh connected number

265 entitled what are you a dictionary um you know connected is and i hope you'll take this

in the spirit i mean it which is always a great way to start a statement. Connected is a really

weird show in the best possible way. And I feel like if you haven't heard Connected and you want

just kind of a little taste of what Connected is all about, episode 265, which was released on the 14th

of October, it is connected, distilled to its bare essentials, and it was

delightful. So in this, and the reason this is in the follow-up section, Mike reviewed his,

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