Hello and welcome to Connected episode 385. It's made possible this week by our sponsors,

indeed smile and memorable. My name is Stephen Hackett, and it is an odd episode. So as always on odd

episodes, I'm going to introduce Mike Hurley first. Hello. Hello. That's all I have to say.

I didn't prepare anything in advance today. No opening statement or greeting of any kind.

Hi, Federico. Ooh, that's interesting.

Hey.

I didn't think about this.

I could assert you.

I could take my moment to assert you

and just to then introduce Federico.

So instead of me introducing each of you,

it's like an introduction chain.

Yeah, I actually think I prefer that, you know?

That feels more democratic.

Democracy is overrated, anyway.

Although I guess nobody ever would introduce Stephen.

That would be the problem.

There's no round-robin.

We don't know it introduces me now.

I mean, I would say it would be really intriguing in the way that this show works

to round-robin introductions episode to episode.

We could never keep track of that.

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