From Relay FM, this is Connected.

Episode 407.

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My name is Mike Hurley, and I have the pleasure of introducing Federico Vitici, who isn't here.

So now I will introduce Stephen Hacken. Hi, Stephen.

Hello.

I figured we've got to keep the thing, right? So connected, is it connected intro.com?

Connected intro.com.

It says that I need to introduce Federico, but he's not here. So I figured I didn't want to

mess it up by introducing you immediately because then I feel like it's going to throw everything off.

Yeah. You can't break the rotation. No. It's just us. Federico had some stuff going on. He's good.

He's okay. We talked to him earlier today. To be fair, to Federico, Stephen basically forced

Federico off the episode this week for self-care reasons, which was good.

I think Federico ended up just taking the time.

Yeah.

But I think without you basically, like, what is, like, bullying, but you're being nice to someone?

Yeah, I said, let me just read what I sent him.

So this is from yesterday.

I said, I've got some stuff in the document.

Federico, are you taking the week off?

I think you should if you want.

Even if you're free to record, you should sleep.

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