It has come to my attention that my actions on last week's show concerning Federico's undying love of Pokemon

upset some people in the audience, and apparently put Federico himself in an emotional tailspin

that will take a long time to recover from. I would like to state for the record that I did not

leave the podcast while we were recording. I played a prank on Federico with the idea in mind to play the

hold music in the edit, making it clear to everyone that it was just a joke. To Federico,

the audience, and the whole world, I would like to apologize for any anxiety or distress my actions

have caused, and through hard work and the dedicated love of my family and friends, I will strive

to do better in the future.

Perhaps we can all learn lessons from this about pranking other people, and we can make the

world a better place together.

I will not be taking questions at this time.

But I do have a question.

Can I ask my question?

No.

Music Can I ask my question? No. Hello and welcome to Connected episode 282.

It is made possible this week by our sponsors, smile, hover, and sanebox.

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

I'm growing as a person. Yeah. Yeah, I'm still so emotionally distressed. I don't know if I can do the show.

I was wondering if you were just not going to say hello. Or maybe I was going to leave.

Maybe I will leave at some point today.

Who knows?

Oh, damn.

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