Hello and welcome to Connected episode 469.

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My name is Stephen Hackett, and I have the pleasure being joined by Mr. Mike Hurley.

Howdy?

Hey.

I just got back from the US of A.

You did.

I did. And I am also joined by Mr. Federico, Vichita. Chow, Federica.

Hello, welcome back to Europe.

Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you guys pushing the episode back a day so I could

be on it because I was coming home, you know? Came home. I'm back home. Federico did text me last night

and said to you back in Europe, which I really appreciate it as a message, you know? Oh yeah.

It was just nice. Nice for him to like recognize that I am geographically in Europe.

Even if the rest of my, even if my government doesn't want me to be. Politically speaking,

you may not be, but in our hearts and in our geography, you are. Yeah. Yeah. Yes.

We have some very important follow up from last week's episode, Federico. Okay. So on the last

episode, we exposed Stephen for his storage. Oh, you saw, you saw the Okay. So on the last episode, we exposed Stephen for his storage.

Oh, you saw the truth.

You saw, you saw, okay, tell me.

So later on in the evening, we were going through to Stephen's house.

We were out in the pod cabin and we went through to Stephen's house and we were

setting up an Xbox that we used for the podcasters on.

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