Hello and welcome to Connected, episode 268.

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My name is Mary Hackett, and I am joined by Federico Vitici. Hi Mary. How are you?

Hello. I'm quite well. Thank you. So we need to address his upfront. We finally got rid of

your husband on the show, Stephen. So after much deliberation, Mike and I discuss it is time for Stephen to pursue his true passion, collecting old Macs,

and therefore you will be replacing Stephen, Mary.

I'm very excited about this.

We had a topic in mind.

I know that you have a lot of opinions and thoughts about headphones

and specifically earbuds.

I'm guessing for working out and listening to music. So I kind of wanted to kick things off with this topic. So Stephen mentioned

a while back before being fired from the show that you bought the new Power Beets Pro. I guess that's the name.

Yes.

So tell me, and I have a lot, I should say,

I have a lot of questions for you because my girlfriend, Sylvia, also bought these earbuds.

I have a lot of questions.

So tell me how your experience with these ones went.

Sure.

So I should preface all this by saying,

I don't like to buy new things. I like to get one thing that works. And if it works well, I don't want to change it ever. So I branched out, Stephen encouraged me because my beats X kept dying. I was on my third pair. So we branched out and tried the new ones,

the Power Beats Pro.

And I was very hesitant for several reasons.

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