Hello and welcome to Connected episode 565.

What's the thing where the letters are the same both ways, Mike?

Palindrome.

Welcome to the Palindrome episode of Connected.

We're going to do topics in reverse chronological order.

No, no, no, no.

We start at the end and then do the beginning one and we just meet in the middle.

Maybe.

Yeah.

Anyways, today is August 13th, not a Pallandrum in any way.

This episode is made possible by

squarespace fit bod and factor my name is stephen hackett i'm joined as always except when we're

not by my curly no i'm always here all right i am the constant that's what they call me

you took two months off aside from that i am the constant, I was constantly away for two months. That's true. And now I'm constantly back. So we're in full on summer season. So Federico's not here this week. Stephen's not here next week. I'm not sure if Federico's going to be here next week. I will be here next week.

That's all I can give you right now.

That's where we are with the show.

It's summer.

Federico's disappeared as he does every summer.

And we wish for him to return.

And one day he will.

But until then, he's not here.

He's not here.'s not yeah think about that

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