Hello and welcome to Connected episode 478.

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

Hello, Stephen. How are you? I am good. How are you? I'm doing fantastic. It's very early for you. We're

recording these at a different schedule, and it's like at 8.30 in the morning. Yeah. Yeah. So if I sound,

this is how I sound in the morning, basically. Okay. You're saying good. Deeper and worse. But what can you do? I had a couple of weeks ago, I was already up and moving, and one of my parents called me.

They're like, did I wake you up? I was like, no, this is just how I sound. Like, I just sound like death until 10 a.m. or so. But we're here. Mike is on vacation.

And I think Mike needs something from the listeners to know that he's missed.

Yeah. So we've done emoji before. Right. I think it's time we move past the emoji and i think i think we should do something

that mike is hmm mike is not capable of doing mike if i recall correctly cannot write

haikus he has struggled with that in the past the The counting gets him, I think. Yes. So I think we

should ask listeners to write Michael a haiku. Okay. And tell him he's missed. I think so. Yeah.

Yeah? I love it. I absolutely love it.

Okay.

So, feel free to get creative, write a haiku, and tell Mike is missed from the show.

And the Discord, whatever, is missed.

Yeah.

Backs it to him, you know, however you get into it. It's not with us.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Get in touch with the. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, got in touch with the UK embassy.

You imagine Mike gets home and like the military shows about his door and like,

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