Hello and welcome to Connected Episode 378, our 20-21 year-end review. It is made possible by our sponsors,

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My name is Stephen Hackett, and I am joined by Mr. Federico Vitici.

Hello. Hi.

Hello.

Happy end of the year, my friend.

Happy end of another year that feels like last year. Yes. Thank you.

Also joined from some places over, you know,

not in America, someplace else. Mike Hurley. That is such a weird way to introduce someone.

Well, you were here and now you're not. No, I'm not. And you didn't see me when you were here.

That's correct. Wow. That's harsh. And now there's a pandemic again.

You're never going to see each other again. It doesn't seem like it. That's the way that

cookie crumbles, my friend. Got your Omicron all over the place and ran away. So this is our

2021 year in review. If you're not familiar with this episode, we do at

the end of the year every year. We walk through the months of the year and talk about some of the

news that we covered and kind of see how it feels now. We should say there's a bit of a disclaimer

on this that we're recording this episode early and

out of order so it's going to be published after christmas but we're recording it on

december 21st so if tim cook announces the apple car in four days may not be in this episode

that probably would be i think we would record something for that. But there may be some

last minute news that we missed, but we had to record this early for a bunch of reasons. So here we are

an episode, a little bit out of order. It's very strange. I had to be very careful with the

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