Hello and welcome to another episode of App Stories, a very special episode, all about the MacStory Selects Awards.

This episode is brought to you by Revenue Cat.

I'm John Vortes and with me is Federico Vitechi. Hey, Federico. Hello, John. It's award season. It is. It is. I feel like we're at the Oscars, but we're not in our tuxes. So I guess it's a little different. I don't have a tux. I'm sorry. I thought about dressing up for this,

but then I realized, no, I'm not going to, you know, nobody's going to believe me. Oh, no, no. There's only so many people watch it on YouTube and look, this is us. This is what you get. You get, you know, us taping here on our, on our computers. You know, last night, Federica, before we get get started i actually went and saw a bluegrass band doing christmas music it was kind of nice it was nice i like getting out

and doing like these things that are very on digital because you know we spent so much time in front

of a screen it's nice to see someone just perform music on a stage in front of you. You know what that's like, I think.

Yeah.

This morning it says something happened to me.

Yeah.

You know, you know how we always get like robocalls from spammers?

Sure.

And I got one.

And I have true caller installed on my iPhone, which is a third-party spam filtering utility.

And I got this phone call,

and it's like true caller on the lock screen

is saying high potential for spammer.

And I was like,

because we were waiting for a coffee table delivery.

Oh, so you're waiting for a delivery guy to call, yeah. From a furniture, from a design brand like furniture shop. Sure. That we bought online. I was like, hmm, should I get this one? Because it was 8.30 in the morning. Yeah. I had just woken up. And I was like, True caller is saying that it's spam.

Do I want to take my chances?

And I did.

And it was the delivery guy.

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