Hello and welcome to Connected Episode 427.

My name is Stephen Hackett, and Hover and ExpressVPN are sponsors.

They're awesome sponsors.

We're going to talk about them later.

But first, everyone, please stand for the entrance of Mike Hurley. Welcome back. Don't even. Don't even try and like suck up to me now. I didn't do anything wrong. Hang on a second. Federico's here too. Hi, Federico. Hello. Hi. Welcome. I have never felt such portrayal in my life.

Oh, come on. Then what you two have done to me.

Surely you must have been betrayed before.

No, not like this.

Nah, come on.

Not like this. I thought we had an agreement. I thought that we had a pact.

The whole time everyone's going, yeah, Mike.

The passionate ones were not passionate enough

for that amazing t-shirt that we made years ago.

So we're going to make them pay for this by never bringing it back.

And I turned my back for just a moment, a mere moment.

And then the t-shirts back.

This is a travesty.

It's unbelievable.

Not only is it back, but we've sold more this time

than the previous time. Yeah, but you see, this is the thing. So as we're recording right now,

we sold 196. Therefore, proving the point of last time. Yeah, it's not a lot of shirts.

They are not passionate enough for this t-shirt. That's the point. That was the whole reason. The reason we were never going to bring it back is because it was an amazing t-shirt idea the first time and people didn't buy enough of them. So they're like, fine, you've spoken with your wallets. Now you're never going to get it. And people are like, give me it. It's like, well, you should have bought it the first time. And now you brought it back. You know, you decided that you, two of you, although I'm most,

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