From Relay, this is Connected, episode 532.

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It is the annies, our annual year in review episode. I am your Ricky Benchman, Mike Hurley,

and I have the pleasure of introducing Federico Viterico. Hello, Mike. How are you?

I'm good. I'm feeling very good. I'm excited for today.

You're feeling good? Yeah, it's a great episode coming up. And for this episode, we're also

joined by Stephen Hackett. Hello,

Steven. Hey, boys. Hello. Another year. Another year gone. One step closer to the end.

That's a Lincoln Park reference. It is. Oh, okay. That just seemed really dark to me as someone

who's not deep in the

law, you know? Yeah. So yes, it is the annies. You may be thinking, wait, what is this? Well, we do it

every year. The premise is pretty simple. It's our annual year in review. Months are graded on the

Tici scale. We should talk about the Tici scale.

So Federico, do you want to walk us through the different steps on the scale worse to best?

Yeah.

So the Tici scale is a measuring system that's been in existence for quite a few years at this point.

It's a very simple way to think about something that you like or dislike.

It starts from the very bottom. There's nightmare after nightmare. So that's something that is

really, truly, horrifically bad. Then we move up to inferior minus, then there's inferior. Then we

move on to the middle part of the scale where there's decent and normal. Now, this is like, when

something is decent or normal, it's like the difference between the two is more like vibe-based,

but you'll get it. You know it when you see it. Moving on to the right side of the scale,

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