Hello and welcome to Connected episode 481.

It is made possible by our sponsors, Masterclass and Electric.

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

Hello, and I have the pleasure of being joined by Mr. Mike Hurley. Hello, and I have the pleasure of being joined on this very special episode by Federico Vitechi.

We're back together. Hi, Federico. We did it.

Hello, and welcome. Hello and welcome to the 10th annual upgradeies. No, wait, no.

Wait, what? Wait, what? No, no. That is a different show.

But, but as a huge fan of upgrade, you got to go listen to the upgrades.

I just wanted to say this up front.

Hashtag, justice for connected.

Yeah, well, look, here's the thing, Stephen.

Would you award yourself?

Would you do that?

We don't need justice.

But it's just, we just need one more to be a lifetime achievement.

I could say Stephen with the Obama giving himself a medal.

Somebody please make it.

Discord, you have your first assignment.

It's a complicated thing, right?

Like, it's kind of down to Jason. I'm not giving

myself an award. The honor is to be nominated, you know? Maybe. It's the annies today.

It's the annies. So if you were not familiar with this, this is where we take our years worth

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