Hello and welcome to Connected episode 575.

It's made possible by our sponsors, Gusto and E-CAM.

My name is Stephen Hackett.

I have the pleasure of being joined by Mike Hurley.

Hello, Stephen Hackett. Hello, Mike Hurley. Hello, Stephen Hackett.

Hello, Mike Hurley. How are you?

I'm very good. How are you?

I'm pretty good. It's Thursday. Is there anyone else here?

Yes. The one and only. The Benchman of Ricky. Federico Vittici.

Good morning. Yes. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. We have a fun show for you today. Yes. Hi. Oh, that was good. Oh, I like that. That was good. Yes. I'm also good. It's very windy today here. Yeah, I don't like the wind in general.

I can't imagine windy in Rome.

I don't feel like you're a place for windiness.

Oh, no, no, it gets windy.

It gets windy.

It gets windy.

Believe me.

Yeah, all my plants in the balcony are suffering because of the wind.

Can I tell you all a story about wind?

Yes.

So our new house, like the lights on either side of the front door, that one by the back door, they were like a silver color and they didn't really match anything. But we liked the way the lights looked. They were like a pendant light with like some stained glass in them that the bulb is in. So it's like really nice along the walkway. And I was like, well, I'll just take them off the house. I'll take them apart. They needed a cleaning anyways. And I figured I'd paint them black, which would match the house better. And so I did the first two and they turned out really well, was really happy with them, took them apart, cleaned them really well, taped them all off, you know, painted them and put them back up. And then I was going to do the third one that's around the back of the house. And I was like, well, great. You know, this one will go really easily because the first two went so well. So it has been windy here. Memphis has made the turn into autumn now.

It's like 70 degrees in sunny.

It's perfect weather.

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