Hello and welcome to Connected episode 321.

It's made possible by our sponsors, Mack Weldon, Command Line Heroes, Tower, and Hawthorne.

My name is Stephen Hackett, and I am joined by Mr. Mike Hurley.

Hello. Hello. Are you good? Yeah. Yeah. I was waiting for you to introduce Federico. I'm never

quite sure in these moments, right? Because I expect you to say like if you want me to say something,

then you would say like, hi, how are you? But instead you just say hi. So I say hello. And then I expect you to say like if you want me to say something then you would say like hi how are you but instead you just

say hi so i say hello and then i expect you to go and federico vatici and frederica says hello and then

the japes begin but sometimes we do other things like this time yeah but you don't communicate it is

your job as a host to lead me into the introduction, you know? Yeah.

We're also joined by the much less cranky Federico Vitici.

Hello.

Hi.

How are you? Oh, cranky.

Federico, let me lead you into this introduction.

Are you doing well today, my friend?

I'm doing well.

How about you?

I'm doing pretty well.

Yeah.

Are you doing well?

See, this is how normal humans have a conversation yeah i don't know what

mike's problem is yeah it's been you know too busy building keyboards he lost a human touch

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