Hello and welcome to Connected episode 598.

I am your annual chairman, Stephen Hackett.

We're sponsored this week by Fitbod, Mercury Weather, and Steam Clock, and I'm joined by my friend Mike.

Hello. Hello.

Hello.

No Federico today.

He is at a comic book convention.

So look out for that, I guess.

Yeah.

Do you think he's larping?

You know, I'd never considered it, but it's possible.

The funny thing to me, so this comic book convention is called Rics, which I just think is hilarious. Wow, well, Opsic, man, who's telling him, tell people where he is. I'm saying all of this because I'm a list, you're clearly showing that you're not a listener of NPC. I am not. No one expected it. But on an episode of MPC that I listened to last night, it was the moment Federico realized that he was doing this when they said to see you next week. And he was like, oh, hang on a minute. I won't be here. I'm going to Romex. So he said it all in public. So I feel like I can now say it. And I just think that a Rome comic book convention called Romics is really funny.

How is it spelled?

I guess it's R-O-M-I-C-S.

I would assume.

Romics 2026?

Yeah, Romics.

Rome Comics.

It's the 36th edition.

Wow.

Well, if you want to go in the past and find Federico, that's where he'll be.

Yep.

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