Hello and welcome to this episode of the Connected podcast from Relay.

This is episode number 579.

Today's show is brought to you by our fine sponsor, eCAM, and the Relay, Give Relay campaign for membership.

We're going to talk about that too.

That's who's bringing the episode to you.

My name is Mike Hurley.

I am a professional podcast introducer.

And I have pleasure of introducing the Ricky Benjamin Federico, Vatici.

Ciao, Federico.

Hello, hi. I have been so professionally introduced today. I hope to not let the other

co-host of this program down with my professional introduction. We are also joined by Stephen

Hackett. Hello, Stephen. Hey, boys. Was that professional enough? It really felt good.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

I think we've nailed it after 12 years together.

Yeah.

After 578 professional introductions.

We've made the turn.

We've got there in the end.

We're near in episode 600. it's not that far away

it's crazy it doesn't i don't feel like uh i don't feel like 600 you know

feel this show feels younger than that yeah well we're very close on upgrade to 600 yeah

because you guys cheat and don't take christmas off yeah and and we've also done extra episodes, like for drafts and stuff.

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