The movie and tech we actually want to use | The Vergecast

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The Verge

7/2/2025

One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies and on TV. Some of that tech is great, some of it is deeply dystopian, and most of it would make the world a very different place if it suddenly existed. In this episode, a bunch of us try to figure out which tech we actually want to use. David is joined by The Verge’s Allison Johnson, Jennifer Pattison-Tuohy, Mia Sato, and Victoria Song — aka the hosts of Hot Girl Vergecast Summer — to draft their way through the movie, show, and game tech they’d want to make real. Some of the picks you’ll expect, and some we bet has never crossed your mind. And some big-name tech goes undrafted!

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00:00:00Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of flying cars that you will never fly.

00:00:07I'm your friend David Pierce, and if you're seeing this or hearing it, it means I'm already

00:00:11dead.

00:00:12No, I'm just kidding.

00:00:13It just means I'm out on parental leave.

00:00:14I'm going to be gone through the rest of the summer.

00:00:17Nilay Patel, my co-host, is going to be gone probably sometime after me, but he's going

00:00:21to be gone for the summer too.

00:00:22We're going to be back this fall, and we're going to be so excited to hang out with all

00:00:26of you and talk tech again after talking about just baby stuff for months.

00:00:30We're very excited, but in the meantime, you are in exceptionally good hands.

00:00:34Jake Kastronakis on our team is going to be taking over the Friday show for the summer,

00:00:37and we have four guest hosts who are going to be with you all summer on the Tuesday show,

00:00:42and they are also my four guests today.

00:00:45V song, Alison Johnson, Jen Tui, and Mia Sato are going to be hosting the show, and they

00:00:49have some big ideas about all the different kinds of stories that they're going to tell

00:00:52you.

00:00:53They've been working on some really fun stuff.

00:00:54We're going to have some stuff about all whatever chaotic news happens this summer.

00:00:58They're going to have a blast, and I think you're going to have a blast.

00:01:00So I invited the four of them for my last episode here this summer to come with me and

00:01:05do something I've been wanting to do for a long time, which is look through the annals

00:01:09of movies and TV shows and all of the technology in all of them and try to decide what we would

00:01:15actually want in our life.

00:01:17So we're going to do a bit of a draft today.

00:01:19The five of us, we're going to pick five things each, and it's going to be chaos, and we're

00:01:23going to try to figure out what fictional tech do we want in our real lives.

00:01:27All that is coming up in just a sec, but first we've got to take a quick break because presumably

00:01:31I've got to go do some kid stuff.

00:01:33I don't know.

00:01:34This is the Verge Cast.

00:01:35I'm joined by the squad that is taking over the Verge Cast this summer.

00:01:47The four of you are going to just absolutely run me out of a job, and I literally could

00:01:51not be more excited about it.

00:01:53In the order in which I see you, Alison Johnson's here.

00:01:55Hi, Alison.

00:01:56Hello.

00:01:57Jen Toohey, also here with very cool lights in the background.

00:02:00Hi, Jen.

00:02:01Always.

00:02:01Always cool stuff in my house.

00:02:03Hi, David.

00:02:04V's song, I believe, in a phone booth in our office.

00:02:08Hell yeah, and I brought my podcast mic with me to the office, so that's dedication.

00:02:13Nothing more fun than a long podcast in a phone booth.

00:02:16This is going to be great.

00:02:18Mia Sato is also here.

00:02:19Hi, Mia.

00:02:19Hello.

00:02:20You got the most TikTok-y podcast setup of all of us, so congratulations.

00:02:24You got the big pop filter.

00:02:26Oh my God, you're lucky I don't have my AirPod mic, you know what I mean?

00:02:30Or the new thing that they're doing, they're clipping like a Rode mic onto a tube of lip

00:02:34gloss and then holding the lip gloss.

00:02:36I actually should have done that.

00:02:37You should have done it.

00:02:38There was a real, be like honest to God, had a conversation about like, what if all of

00:02:41David's recordings for the Vergecast were with the tiny little lavalier mic?

00:02:45So good.

00:02:46And I just couldn't do it.

00:02:47I am 20 years too old to be able to pull that off.

00:02:50Age is just in your mind.

00:02:53Listen, age is but a number and if he has taught me anything, an SPF measurement on sunscreen.

00:02:58This is correct.

00:03:01Okay, so here is how this draft is going to work.

00:03:04The concept is essentially things that are in movies, TV shows, and I believe we said

00:03:10yes to video games, that we would like to lift out of those things and place in the real

00:03:15world.

00:03:15And I think the way I've come to see it is it's like, it's not just one that's for you,

00:03:19but it's also not like everyone on earth has it.

00:03:22It's at like, I would say like Mac Pro levels of adoption, right?

00:03:26Where like if you see one, you're not like, oh weird, I've never seen that before.

00:03:29But you also like, don't assume that everyone you've ever met has one.

00:03:33Does that make sense?

00:03:34Okay.

00:03:35Price is no object.

00:03:36None of these things cost anything in these movies anyway.

00:03:38So they're just, it's just, we're taking it out and putting it into our real lives.

00:03:42Um, there are only, I would say three rules that I have for you.

00:03:48One is no weapons, which is just like, don't, don't be weird.

00:03:51We don't need that energy here.

00:03:53Thing number two is you can't draft a concept.

00:03:54So you can't like draft time travel or like, uh, I don't know, cure all diseases.

00:04:01It's like, not, you just can't, you can't have that.

00:04:04Even though that is like a thing that exists in the fiction of some of these things.

00:04:06Uh, if there is a gadget through which you can time travel, knock yourself out, but you can't just have the concept of time travel.

00:04:12Uh, and the third thing is a rule that we just decided on earlier today, which is, um, you're not allowed to try and make the world a better place.

00:04:19I was looking through, and the reason.

00:04:21And none of us had thought about doing that at all.

00:04:24No, not at all.

00:04:25Which I love very much.

00:04:25But the reason this came up is I was looking through a bunch of stuff to make my own list for this draft.

00:04:30And, uh, there's this thing in the movie Elysium, which I have never seen, uh, called the med bay, I believe.

00:04:37And its thing is it can diagnose and cure like all diseases ever in history.

00:04:41And I immediately had this moment of being like, oh, well, I should draft this because that's great.

00:04:44Wouldn't it be good?

00:04:45And then I was like, that's stupid and boring.

00:04:46So you're not allowed, you're not allowed to make the world a better place.

00:04:49And if that is your argument, you will be, you will be summarily rejected from your draft.

00:04:54And we're going to do five rounds.

00:04:55So we're each going to pick five things, 25 things in total, which is actually kind of a large number.

00:05:00And we're going to do it in sort of snake draft order.

00:05:02So if you draft last at the end of the first round, you will then immediately draft again to start the second round.

00:05:07And we just go back and forth.

00:05:09That's basically it.

00:05:10Any questions before we go?

00:05:11Anything I forgot?

00:05:12Everybody feel good?

00:05:13Ready to go?

00:05:14How do we win?

00:05:15Oh, terrific point.

00:05:17When this show goes live, we will have a post on theverge.com with all of our picks laid out and we will do some kind of poll.

00:05:27And I don't know if the verges, if we use WordPress, maybe WordPress lets us do a poll and I will be the first person to do that on theverge.com.

00:05:35Maybe we'll figure out some other way to do it, but we will do a poll and whoever wins, I don't know, I'll send you a Mac Pro.

00:05:41I won't do that, but I'm going to do something.

00:05:43Mac Pro.

00:05:44You heard it here, ladies.

00:05:46Mac Pro.

00:05:47David Pierce.

00:05:48Mac Pro.

00:05:49Now, he's not specified the year of Mac Pro, which is the little loophole.

00:05:53I'm going to send you a trash can and you're going to love it.

00:05:58Okay.

00:05:58So first thing we need to do is pick the draft order.

00:06:02And in order to do this, I would like to quickly shout out the website namesfromahat.com.

00:06:07I have put all of our names into the digital hat and we are going to now, I'm going to click the button that says do the draw and we're going to see what happens.

00:06:16Okay.

00:06:17Well, that, all right, there we go.

00:06:19It broke, but now it works.

00:06:21Picking first, Gentooey.

00:06:23Yay.

00:06:24Picking second will be V song.

00:06:27Picking third, Miyasato.

00:06:29Picking fourth, Alison Johnson.

00:06:31And picking last, David Pierce.

00:06:34Oh.

00:06:35I'm sort of upset by this, but it's fine.

00:06:37I take issue with this hat.

00:06:39I feel very strongly about my first pick and I still think I'm going to get it.

00:06:43So I think it's going to be fine.

00:06:44So there's our order.

00:06:46Gentooey, first overall pick.

00:06:48Okay.

00:06:48I think I'm going to have to start with, okay.

00:06:51I know what I'm going to start with.

00:06:53Going to my roots here in case anyone can't tell I'm English.

00:06:57So I'm going with the TARDIS from Doctor Who.

00:07:01Very good.

00:07:02Which I just, as a kid, actually is probably the first piece of tech I remember and just loving.

00:07:09That and the Daleks, but I'm not going to choose a Daleks.

00:07:12So can you explain for people who have not watched Doctor Who, what is the TARDIS and why'd you pick it?

00:07:16Okay.

00:07:17So the TARDIS is the time and relative dimension in space vehicle from the show Doctor Who, long running show, older than me, had recent revival, which I haven't actually watched much of.

00:07:31But the reason I would like the TARDIS is because you can travel across space and time and fabrics and all the kind of cool space sci-fi.

00:07:42I mean, it's just the coolest device, transportation device you could possibly have.

00:07:49And it is like as large as you want it to be, but it is also a telephone booth, which is just the best concept in the world.

00:07:58So the other thing I thought about picking, and if I'd lost this one, I would have gone for, would have been the Bill and Ted's telephone booth that travels through time.

00:08:06But the TARDIS is way cooler.

00:08:08I agree.

00:08:10The TARDIS is a home, too.

00:08:11It is.

00:08:11You can live in it.

00:08:12You go wherever you like.

00:08:13We're in it.

00:08:14It's a translation machine.

00:08:17It's like, it is all the tech that you could possibly need packed into a telephone booth.

00:08:24There are a few of these in this draft that are just kind of cheating because it's like, oh, I get to draft this and then I have everything that has ever existed for everyone ever.

00:08:31It's going to be great.

00:08:32My question is, where would you go?

00:08:34You get in the TARDIS the first time.

00:08:36What do you do?

00:08:38The first time I would go, well, you see, I love history.

00:08:43So going back in time is my kind of, and those episodes were always the fun ones.

00:08:47I don't know if they do that so much in the new series, but in the old series, that was always the fun stuff.

00:08:52And I'm a huge Elizabethan history nerd, Tudor and all that kind of stuff.

00:08:57So I would go back into time, into Tudor history and find out all sorts of cool stuff that I desperately would love to know the real story about rather than having to piece through historical books and figure it out.

00:09:09That was when everybody was beheading everybody.

00:09:11Yeah, it was when they were killing each other.

00:09:13Yeah, it was really interesting times.

00:09:16I like this for you.

00:09:17All right, V, what's your first pick?

00:09:19My first pick is capsules from Dragon Ball Z.

00:09:22They are, listen, okay?

00:09:25They are a genius little invention.

00:09:27And like TARDISes, they are bigger on the inside than the outside.

00:09:31That is the coolest thing.

00:09:33If you've never watched Dragon Ball Z, they're these tiny little capsules.

00:09:36And that's like what Bulma's family is actually famous for.

00:09:40But they're little capsules and you can stick anything in them.

00:09:44You can stick a motorcycle in them.

00:09:45You can stick a vacation home in them.

00:09:47And they fit into a tiny little pill-sized thing that you stick in your pocket.

00:09:51And it's so convenient in that world, it makes them gazillionaires.

00:09:54And so I want that for me because I am tired of carrying all my shit around in a backpack in New York City, getting like real back pain carrying a laptop, this podcast mic, and everything.

00:10:05How do you deploy it?

00:10:07Is it like Pokemon where you throw it?

00:10:09Yeah, kind of.

00:10:10You like press a button and you throw it and your vacation home is there.

00:10:14I like that.

00:10:15Awesome.

00:10:15Your motorcycle is there.

00:10:17Awesome.

00:10:18You know, like parking costs a fuck ton in New York City.

00:10:22So why not just go like, oh, am I done with my car?

00:10:25No parking problems.

00:10:27Like, amazing.

00:10:28Love that for me.

00:10:29Okay.

00:10:29I didn't like this.

00:10:30I was going to make fun of you for basically having all of the options in the world and choosing I don't want to carry a purse anymore.

00:10:35I'm just going to tell everyone, I'm going to set the table stakes here.

00:10:40Every single one of my picks is selfish and it's selfish.

00:10:46It helps my life get easier and truly reveals all the ways in which I'm lazy.

00:10:51Is there a limit to how many capsules one can have at a time?

00:10:56You know, I don't think so.

00:10:58Just like how much you can carry.

00:11:00Like Bulma has like vests, I think, where she's just like, look at my cap.

00:11:03You know, like the trench coat with the watch clocks and she's like, ah, look at my capsules.

00:11:08I don't actually think there's an episode where she does that, but I imagine that's what you can do.

00:11:12Whatever you can fit in your pocket.

00:11:13Capsules.

00:11:14I like this.

00:11:16That's, I like this more and more the more I think about it.

00:11:19I'm now thinking of all the things that would just start carrying with me.

00:11:21This actually makes a lot of sense.

00:11:23Mia, you're up next.

00:11:24What's your first pick?

00:11:25Okay.

00:11:25My first pick was going to be in the similar vein.

00:11:28So you can tell me if I can't.

00:11:29It might be even lazier than V's choice, which is like, I want the giant pockets of animal crossing.

00:11:38Because I don't even want to carry the capsules.

00:11:40I don't want to lose my car.

00:11:41I don't want to lose my wallet.

00:11:43I don't want to lose my tree that I'm carrying around for some reason.

00:11:46I just want it all in my pockets.

00:11:47I want endless deep pockets that I can carry like 20 sharks and a peach.

00:11:53You know, that's what I want.

00:11:55So is that too close?

00:11:56Or do I have to pick something else?

00:11:57No, I'm good with it.

00:11:58It is.

00:11:58It's different.

00:11:59What I'm just blown away by is Jen is like, I would like to travel through space and time.

00:12:03And you're just like, I'd like to have a peach.

00:12:05What if I just had a peach?

00:12:07There's a theme though to all of these picks so far in that it's larger on the inside.

00:12:12But also just like, I'm tired is a real vibe I'm getting from all of you.

00:12:16It's just like, I don't want to, like I had to, I had to walk a lot of places with bags.

00:12:20And what if I just didn't have to do that anymore?

00:12:21I'm so sick of it.

00:12:22Also, like my, I know that it's not a technology, but on the Animal Crossing subject, my second

00:12:27pick would have been a raccoon landlord that lets me pay off my apartment in zero interest

00:12:32loans and builds like a beautiful house for me and wears a Hawaiian shirt.

00:12:37So I'm guessing I can't draft Tom Nook.

00:12:39Where's Tom Nook?

00:12:41Where is Tom Nook?

00:12:43And where is that stock market that actually, you know, lets people get rich?

00:12:47Yeah, Tom Nook, Animal Crossing pockets are almost, I think, a violation of the, it has

00:12:56to be technology and not magic rule, but I'll, I'll allow it.

00:12:59I can also pick something else if you think it's too close.

00:13:02You can have your gigantic pockets full of peaches.

00:13:04That's amazing.

00:13:05I mean, if you'd gone with like Mary Poppins bag, that might've been magic.

00:13:08Right, right.

00:13:10I think Animal Crossing pockets, we will, we will allow.

00:13:13Amazing.

00:13:14I really, I did not expect this to just be, how do I move things around in the first round,

00:13:19but I'm enjoying this very much.

00:13:20You were talking to four women.

00:13:22I'm also realizing, I'm also realizing my first pick fits perfectly into this theme.

00:13:26So this is going to be great.

00:13:28Allison, you're up next.

00:13:29What's your first pick?

00:13:30Okay, I'm going to pick the one that I'm worried someone else might pick.

00:13:38It's not necessarily like my favorite one, but I think it would come in handy.

00:13:43In Men in Black, the little like, little blinky light thing.

00:13:48Is it called the Neuralizer?

00:13:49The Neuralizer.

00:13:50Okay.

00:13:51All right.

00:13:51I want it specifically.

00:13:53I don't want to like do crimes.

00:13:55I just want it for my social anxiety.

00:13:58So if I like say something stupid, I can be like, wait, wait, wait, let me do that over

00:14:04again.

00:14:06Yeah, that's what I got.

00:14:08Okay.

00:14:08So this, this is a good time to bring up something that we probably should have talked about with

00:14:12the TARDIS in particular, which is the societal implications.

00:14:16Because, because what happens here is it, and there, I, I went through this a bunch with

00:14:20a bunch of the things that I'm actually not going to pick as a result of this, but like

00:14:23you, Allison, I trust to have a Neuralizer.

00:14:26I think that would be fine.

00:14:27Right.

00:14:28But if we're going to just sort of randomly sprinkle Neuralizers on people around the

00:14:33earth, potential problems.

00:14:35A lot could go wrong.

00:14:36But what if they're like.

00:14:37Are we sure we want to bring this into existence?

00:14:39What if we can only use them on ourselves?

00:14:42Ooh.

00:14:42Okay, but.

00:14:45I got another pick.

00:14:46No, but that would be worse.

00:14:47Because then, then my social anxiety says, oh my God, what did I say to other people that

00:14:51I don't even remember now?

00:14:53What have I Neuralized out of myself?

00:14:54No, it's like a Neuralizer light.

00:14:57Like, you can't do, you can't use it for any, like, serious, like, heavy memories.

00:15:03Like, forget about your whole life and your wife or whatever it is in Men in Black.

00:15:09Like, it's just like, like, oh, I bent over at the bookstore and it was quiet and I farted.

00:15:15I don't, I'm just going to, like, flash this thing no one will ever know.

00:15:20Yeah.

00:15:22Rewind for a few, just a few seconds.

00:15:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:15:24So it's like, it's like a Neural, like a low stakes Neuralizer.

00:15:26Yes, low stakes only.

00:15:28Okay.

00:15:30Mia, is this a good idea?

00:15:32Should we allow, do we want this in the world?

00:15:34Um, I just worry about if many people have it and everyone's forgetting the embarrassing

00:15:40thing they did, then that kind of disrupts the equilibrium of the world.

00:15:45Everybody becomes too confident.

00:15:46Yeah, everyone becomes a little too confident.

00:15:48Everyone becomes a little too polished.

00:15:51And frankly, like, I am fine doing embarrassing things because I've seen a million people do

00:15:56really embarrassing things in public.

00:15:58You know what I mean?

00:15:59It's kind of like social media that way.

00:16:01Yeah, well, I think that even if people had the Neuralizer, they would not stop posting

00:16:05embarrassing things.

00:16:07So people would still be idiots online.

00:16:09So maybe it's fine.

00:16:10The Neuralizer would make the real world, like, weird and not change social media one tiny

00:16:16thing.

00:16:16At all.

00:16:16You know what I would not change at all?

00:16:17At all.

00:16:18In fact, they would be crazier online, like, because you have no other outlet.

00:16:23That's true.

00:16:24That's pretty good.

00:16:25All right.

00:16:26I get two now.

00:16:28Um, because I get two, I'm going to pick.

00:16:31The one that I don't think is like the thing I should pick first, but is the one I want

00:16:34the most out of everything, which is the hoverboard from Back to the Future 2.

00:16:39And the beauty of this is it's not just that I have one.

00:16:41It's that lots of people have one.

00:16:43So we've now normalized this as a transportation system and a way that to get around that is

00:16:48like, what if bird scooters, but like much cooler, uh, which turns out to be like precisely

00:16:54the, the aesthetic I'm going for.

00:16:56And this is the true hoverboard that actually hovers.

00:17:00It seems to be very light.

00:17:01It's pink.

00:17:02Uh, it's very important to me that they're all pink.

00:17:04Um, and, and you can just, you can ride around in the air.

00:17:07You can do all kinds of cool, sick tricks.

00:17:09It's a way to get places.

00:17:10It's a way to get in fights.

00:17:11Um, this just feels like if I could just pick up a thing and be like, I'm going to instantly

00:17:16make everyone's life more fun to get around.

00:17:21I think I'm doing a great service to society with the hoverboard.

00:17:24Don't we already have hoverboards?

00:17:26Yeah, but they light on fire.

00:17:28And they're not real.

00:17:30Like they don't actually hover.

00:17:32They're just like stupid things with wheels on them.

00:17:36So this is the, the legit Back to the Future 2.

00:17:37To be fair, I was also a big fan of those hoverboards.

00:17:39It's just like, they were a good idea, except for the whole, like they exploded and were

00:17:46impossible to ride thing.

00:17:47Uh, but I was, I was in on that concept again.

00:17:50Did you have one?

00:17:52Uh, I, I still might have one somewhere.

00:17:55Uh, ride it now.

00:17:56Do it now.

00:17:58I feel like we're going to need some traffic laws though, because we've seen with the scooters

00:18:03and the e-bikes and everything that out there today that, that these vehicles, pedestrian

00:18:12type vehicles that move fast and break things can be quite awful and dangerous.

00:18:18If you want the privilege of a hoverboard, you have to go to the DMV and get a hoverboard

00:18:22license because, um, otherwise you're just a fucking menace.

00:18:26Yeah.

00:18:26To be fair, I think people should have to do that with scooters.

00:18:27So I'm, I'm actually fine with this, it should be much harder to get one of these things

00:18:32on the street, but I kind of like to think of it like there's a very powerful hoverboard

00:18:35lobby that has made it so that they just coexist with cars now and, and everybody's fine with

00:18:39this.

00:18:39I like that we're just writing fan fiction.

00:18:41This is great.

00:18:43I've solved a lot of problems here.

00:18:45Um, all right.

00:18:45So that's my first pick.

00:18:47I think, I think for my second pick, I'm just going to take Jarvis from Iron Man.

00:18:53Oh, lost two already.

00:18:55Which just feels like this sort of like, I don't, I don't, I'm not going to take another

00:19:01of the like all purpose, do everything machines that let me travel back through time.

00:19:04This is the closest one to just like my all purpose AI helper that makes me sick at everything.

00:19:12Uh, and I think of all of them, Jarvis is the best.

00:19:18V, you and I talk a lot about Jarvis.

00:19:19Like is Jarvis, is Jarvis the best one?

00:19:21I think Jarvis is the best one.

00:19:23Or like, if you want to get nitty gritty, you could have like Friday or the other ones

00:19:27that Tony Stark has made.

00:19:28But like an AI that Tony Stark has made that is like with the power of science fiction

00:19:33capable of doing all the things that the AI of today cannot actually do in a way that

00:19:39actually is natural language.

00:19:41And it's like, oh, you know, I could deal with Paul Bettany in my ear telling me sassy little

00:19:47things and, and like reminders.

00:19:49I do worry that Jarvis would find me very unimpressive that like, this is, this is what I worry about

00:19:54with Jarvis.

00:19:54It's like, I don't want the suit.

00:19:55I don't want to like do cool stuff.

00:19:57I just want to be like, Jarvis, where did I leave my wallet?

00:20:00And for Jarvis to be like, it's in the stroller where it always is.

00:20:02And like this, this is the extent of what I require.

00:20:05I do like that Jarvis keeps Tony humble.

00:20:07He's just like, oh, you idiot.

00:20:09It's over there.

00:20:10Like, like I want, I need like a, a degree of that in my life.

00:20:13It's just like, oh, you dingbat.

00:20:15It's right where you left it the last 400 times.

00:20:19And it is important that it's Paul Bettany.

00:20:20You're right about that.

00:20:21Yes.

00:20:21It's very important that it's Paul Bettany.

00:20:23It has to have an English accent.

00:20:25That's the important part.

00:20:26Yeah.

00:20:26A hundred percent.

00:20:27So those are my two.

00:20:28I feel, I feel very good about this.

00:20:30I think I have accomplished some things here.

00:20:32I have a way to get around and I have just like my non-terrifying AI buddy to hang out

00:20:37with all day.

00:20:38Round two, Alison, you're up.

00:20:40All right.

00:20:41Um, I'm going to go with the holodeck from Star Trek.

00:20:45Uh, solid choice.

00:20:47Yeah.

00:20:48Like, and I have no problem with everybody else having this too.

00:20:51We can all have our little, like, you'd be like, you know what?

00:20:54I'm going to peace out.

00:20:55I'm going to go sit on a mountain for 20 minutes.

00:20:58Wait, can you explain what it is?

00:20:59Because I've never seen Star Trek.

00:21:01Okay.

00:21:01So is she allowed to work at the Virch?

00:21:04No.

00:21:04Uh-oh.

00:21:07Yeah.

00:21:07This is the last regular idea.

00:21:08I'm going to back you up, Mia.

00:21:10I've only seen the Star Trek movies, so we're good.

00:21:13Yeah.

00:21:13And I just, I just saw Star Wars for the first time in my entire life.

00:21:17Oh my goodness, Mia.

00:21:18You might need to stop.

00:21:19Okay.

00:21:20You know, Star Trek, the one was fine, but two, both of those.

00:21:24But you know what?

00:21:25No, no, no, no.

00:21:25She's seen it.

00:21:26She's seen it now, guys.

00:21:27She's seen it now.

00:21:27I've seen one.

00:21:28I've seen one.

00:21:30Which one?

00:21:31The first one?

00:21:32Okay, but you have to get more specific.

00:21:33That's a loaded question.

00:21:34Yeah, if you, like, accidentally watch Phantom Menace, we have a real problem.

00:21:37It's the, I think it's-

00:21:38Was Jar Jar Binks there?

00:21:40No.

00:21:41Okay.

00:21:41So it's the chronological first one, not the story first one.

00:21:45Was Harrison Ford, like, really hot or, like, really, really hot?

00:21:49Is there a difference?

00:21:50Wait a minute.

00:21:51Correct answer.

00:21:52That's all of them.

00:21:53You did it.

00:21:54I think it's the first one.

00:21:55It's the, it's when the script comes.

00:21:57When it's in a galaxy far, far away.

00:21:59That's all of them.

00:22:00That's all of them.

00:22:00You'll do this.

00:22:01Does Carrie Fisher have space buns on the side of her ears?

00:22:04Good one.

00:22:05She has those in front of them.

00:22:07No, she only has the space buns that, like, we have, if we're going to go into Carrie Fisher

00:22:11hairstyle.

00:22:11She's in, she's, like, in captivity.

00:22:15Okay.

00:22:15Yes.

00:22:16Yeah.

00:22:16You're good.

00:22:16Okay.

00:22:18Is she in a metal bikini?

00:22:19No, not, I don't think so.

00:22:21Then I think, I think it's the proper episode for our first one.

00:22:24We're going to pause this podcast.

00:22:25Mia's going to go watch all the Star Wars.

00:22:27Yeah.

00:22:27And then we will, we will resume.

00:22:28No, go make her watch all of them.

00:22:30Some of them are not worth.

00:22:32Yeah.

00:22:32There's, like, five of them you should watch.

00:22:33It'll be all right.

00:22:34But wait, Allison, explain, explain the holodeck.

00:22:36Okay.

00:22:37Holodeck is a, is a room.

00:22:39It's, like, a medium-sized room that is just, like, pixels or something.

00:22:44And there's a little control panel on the outside.

00:22:47And you want to, if you want to go to, like, a rainforest or see a waterfall, you go, like,

00:22:54boop, boop, boop, boop.

00:22:54And you put it on the control panel.

00:22:57And the room turns into wherever you want to go.

00:23:01And I think that's perfect.

00:23:04And I want one.

00:23:05That sounds great.

00:23:06Don't we already have that with the Vision Pro?

00:23:08Okay.

00:23:08I knew someone was going to say Vision Pro.

00:23:10God damn it.

00:23:11No.

00:23:11Absolutely not.

00:23:12This is not the same thing.

00:23:14I'm not going to put.

00:23:15The holodeck, comfy.

00:23:16Vision Pro, not comfy.

00:23:18I want to, like, you can interact with stuff in the holodeck.

00:23:22Like, it's, like, semi-real, you know?

00:23:26Like, if there's a waterfall, then there's maybe real water.

00:23:31I don't know.

00:23:32Maybe.

00:23:32Let's not get to, like...

00:23:33You experience it like it's real, I think.

00:23:34Yeah, yeah.

00:23:35But it's not, which is very important.

00:23:37Right.

00:23:37I honestly believe the world would be a much better place if there were holodecks everywhere.

00:23:41Wouldn't it be so good?

00:23:42Most importantly, you don't have to wear anything.

00:23:44Yes.

00:23:45Like, that's my big thing.

00:23:46Well, and it was interesting how it changed and, like, started to become, like, I mean,

00:23:51like, they, throughout the seasons, it became an entire, like, world that you would go into

00:23:56and, like, have entire stories and act out dreams and ideas.

00:24:01And I remember they used to go, there was a lot of westerns in the holodeck for some reason.

00:24:07That's a dude holodeck.

00:24:09Every dude wants to go into a western.

00:24:12I'm just like...

00:24:13Where do you want to...

00:24:14Yeah, what is...

00:24:15So, what would be your ideal holodeck experience?

00:24:19I think it would be the top of a mountain because it takes a long time to drive to a mountain

00:24:25and hike all the way to the top.

00:24:27And I love doing that.

00:24:28And I do that from time to time.

00:24:30But sometimes you want to, like, microdose a top of mountain experience.

00:24:34And I could just, like, hang out for a little bit and come back and, like, deal with my three-year-old

00:24:39and be chill.

00:24:41That's what I want.

00:24:42I do think we need strict time limits on holodeck usage.

00:24:45Yeah, you can't, like, go live in the holodeck.

00:24:48Right.

00:24:48We're talking, like, a 60-minute-a-day kind of experience.

00:24:52Yeah, yeah.

00:24:53But with some time limit, I sincerely believe the world would be a much better place if

00:24:59we all had access to holodecks.

00:25:00And you could just go, like, get out of your system or experience whatever you need to over

00:25:06there.

00:25:07Yeah.

00:25:08And then come back to reality.

00:25:10I thought we weren't trying to make the world a better place with our picks.

00:25:14It's a byproduct.

00:25:15I want my world to be a better place.

00:25:18Yeah.

00:25:19Yeah.

00:25:20That's a very good one.

00:25:21That was the next one on my list.

00:25:23And I'm sort of sad I didn't pick it.

00:25:24Mia, you're up.

00:25:26Okay.

00:25:26Just strategically, I think I need to grab the Clueless Closet.

00:25:32Yeah.

00:25:33It's classic.

00:25:34It is so fun.

00:25:36I just rewatched the clip a little bit ago.

00:25:38I will say I'm, like, halfway there.

00:25:41Not to brag, but I have...

00:25:43It's not as pretty, but I do have a mega spreadsheet that is an inventory of every single

00:25:50piece of clothing I own.

00:25:52And then the season and the color and where it is in my apartment, like, where it's being

00:25:57stored, whether it's vintage, whether it's from my mom, like, any tags, like, keywords.

00:26:03So, I will say, like, this would visualize an insane thing that I'm already doing.

00:26:10Can you describe how the Clueless Closet works for anyone who hasn't seen the movie?

00:26:13So, it pulls in all of Cher's articles of clothing.

00:26:16And then on her computer, she can kind of scroll through them.

00:26:20And she, like, combines a top and a bottom.

00:26:22And then the computer will be, like, wrong, ugly.

00:26:25Or it will be, like, good, cute.

00:26:29And it's sort of, like, in a way, like, I feel like a lot of these AI, like, outfit things

00:26:35are trying to harness that.

00:26:37But it's...

00:26:38The Clueless one is so cute.

00:26:41It looks so fun.

00:26:42It has that very, like, really good, like, late 90s, early 2000s aesthetic.

00:26:48Like, it's just so good.

00:26:50And, yeah, I have a lot of clothes.

00:26:52I have a lot of clothes.

00:26:54And I need it.

00:26:54Are you sure your spreadsheet isn't enough?

00:26:56You're, like, one column of photos away from just having completely solved this problem.

00:27:00I know.

00:27:01Well, actually, I've seen online some people will, like, photograph themselves wearing every

00:27:05article of clothing and then cut their body in half and make, like, a flip book of the

00:27:09closet, which is really a really cute idea.

00:27:11Oh, my God.

00:27:12But I just do not have the patience for that.

00:27:14Also, there is no three-ring binder that is even close to big enough for me to put all

00:27:19my clothes in.

00:27:20Would you update anything from the Clueless Closet is my main question.

00:27:23It's, it's, because that's a, that's an older idea about this stuff.

00:27:26But I think back and I'm like, they actually, it was sort of perfect.

00:27:29I don't, I don't need any features that it didn't have.

00:27:31Yeah.

00:27:32Don't overcomplicate it.

00:27:33Like, top and bottom.

00:27:35That's pretty much, I mean, that's kind of the basis of every outfit, unless you're wearing,

00:27:38like, a dress or something.

00:27:39Um, but don't make it too complicated.

00:27:41I just want, just, like, generate an idea for me or tell me if my idea is bad.

00:27:46I would, mostly it's, like, visualizing it.

00:27:48Like, you can see it before you put it on your body and then have to take it off and

00:27:53hang it back up and fold it or whatever.

00:27:55So, yeah.

00:27:56Not, I would not change a single thing.

00:27:58I want it as is.

00:27:59It's a good one.

00:28:00I like it.

00:28:01Uh, all right, V, you're up.

00:28:02Okay, so this is going to make me sound like a total anime nerd, but once again, I am,

00:28:07I am taking from the world of Dragon Ball Z and I want scouters.

00:28:11So, if you've never watched Dragon Ball Z.

00:28:14V, am I going to have to make a rule that you can't pick all your things from one particular

00:28:18No, I literally only had two.

00:28:19I only, literally only had the two.

00:28:21And, um, uh, so the scouters from Dragon Ball Z are, like, these little, um, heads up display,

00:28:27uh, augmented reality type situations where it fits over one part of your eye.

00:28:31If you have been online in the last 20 years, you've probably heard,

00:28:35It's over 9,000!

00:28:37Which is just Vegeta screaming because Goku's power level is over 9,000.

00:28:42Vegeta!

00:28:43What's wrong with you?

00:28:44Tell me what his power level is!

00:28:46It's over 9,000!

00:28:49What?

00:28:499,000?

00:28:50You've gotta be kidding me!

00:28:52The idea is that it can bioscan, like, life forms and tell you what their power level is.

00:28:57And I just think that this would be, um, really great for my social anxiety if I can go into

00:29:03a meeting or anything and just put this on and go, like, oh, my power level is over that

00:29:08of random executive?

00:29:11Cool.

00:29:11I can just relax now.

00:29:13Uh, like, if I, you know, I just think it would be great for people if they were going into

00:29:17job interviews and they could put a little scouter on their face and go, like, oh, this

00:29:20schmuck, this HR rep, this schmuck is, like, 2,000 power levels below me.

00:29:24I'm good, I'm cool, I'm Gucci.

00:29:26What if it tells you something you're not prepared to know about?

00:29:28Well, then you're, then you're allowed to panic, but then, you know, at least you have

00:29:32your, your mindset going, like, oh, I need to be on top of my game.

00:29:35Like, you can calibrate.

00:29:37Then you have your motorcycle in a capsule and you just ride away.

00:29:39Then you have my motorcycle in a capsule and I'm like, bye-bye!

00:29:42I'm, oh, your power level's over 9,000?

00:29:46Okay, motorcycle in a capsule, bye-bye.

00:29:48Uh, I'm, I'm good.

00:29:49So, like, that's my, I just want scouters and I, I want it, like, in my ideal world,

00:29:54you could tweak it to whatever you want.

00:29:56So, um, oh, you're, you're going on a date?

00:29:59Calibrate it to Riz.

00:30:00Like, how much charisma does this person that you're going on a date have with?

00:30:04Oh, their, their, their Riz level is 9,000?

00:30:07Okay, now you, you can be on alert for every lie that comes out of their mouth.

00:30:12It's the ultimate, like, read the room machine.

00:30:14Read the room machine.

00:30:15I like this.

00:30:15You just go, you go, read the room and you go, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:30:18And if I ever got to meet Tim Cook, I would be able to be like, oh, cool.

00:30:22Is it like a, I, I still don't quite get what it is.

00:30:27Does it let you read their mind kind of thing?

00:30:29No, no.

00:30:30It just, like, so, like, in their world, everyone has something called key.

00:30:34So, like, it's, like, their power level.

00:30:35It's, like, how powerful they are.

00:30:37So, it doesn't read their mind.

00:30:38It just, like, assigns, like, this person is really powerful.

00:30:43So, like, that sort of thing.

00:30:43So, you're just kind of getting a vibe from them, kind of.

00:30:47Yes.

00:30:47Kind of, like, a numerical, you know, I'm the wearable lady.

00:30:50So, of course, you get a metric level of some person's specific attribute.

00:30:55So, you can, like, my, my ideal version of it, you just be like, oh, I would like to see what someone's friendliness level is when I go into, like, a group of people I've never met before.

00:31:05Scanning.

00:31:06Who is the friendliest person?

00:31:07Okay, this person will give me the least anxiety to talk to.

00:31:10Like, that sort of thing.

00:31:11Or, you know, it could be used for evil.

00:31:13It could be, like, who is the most manipulable person in this room?

00:31:17Like, so, there's.

00:31:18We love quantifying humans.

00:31:21Yeah.

00:31:22That's literally my job.

00:31:24Except usually I quantify myself.

00:31:27So, like, this is just, you know, it's kind of, like, in Allison's vein of the Neuralizer, which was also going to be one of my picks.

00:31:33But it's just, like, a way of managing social anxiety is how I view it.

00:31:40You, I know, just knowing you, I'm sure you have 38 wearables on right now.

00:31:44You would just wear this thing all the time.

00:31:46Do you think most people wear this all the time?

00:31:48Like, is this just a fixture on everybody's heads forever now?

00:31:52Uh, no.

00:31:53And I actually wouldn't wear it all the time.

00:31:54I would mostly wear it in, like, social situations where I'm just trying to, like, get a sense of my bearings and, like, what I need to be aware of going into a room.

00:32:04Because, like, I don't know, like, my, I don't really have an internal monologue.

00:32:09But I do have stress levels shoot through the roof when I have to meet a bunch of people or just be around more than two humans at a time.

00:32:16I just go, like.

00:32:18So, that's my way of solving that.

00:32:22Okay.

00:32:22I like this.

00:32:23I'm not positive this ends up being a good idea.

00:32:28But I like it anyway.

00:32:29Oh, it's an absolute horrible idea.

00:32:31But I like it.

00:32:32I'm telling you, all of my picks are selfish.

00:32:34So, there we go.

00:32:35Yeah.

00:32:35I love this for you.

00:32:36Who cares what happens to everybody else?

00:32:37Yeah.

00:32:38Jen, you're up.

00:32:39You get two now.

00:32:40I'm afraid I'm going for some more big, splashy tech this time.

00:32:43My next few are a little less splashy.

00:32:46But I'm not sure that three-quarters of the room is going to remember this one.

00:32:50But I'm going to start with the theme song and we'll see.

00:32:53I want kit.

00:32:56Okay.

00:32:56Yes, Glame.

00:32:57Three girls.

00:33:01Kit was on my list.

00:33:02Oh, okay.

00:33:04Kit was on my list.

00:33:05I admit I am more familiar with Kit than I am with Knight Rider.

00:33:09So, I left you hanging unintentionally there.

00:33:11Okay.

00:33:12But Kit is a very good pick.

00:33:13Explain to the unknown in the room.

00:33:16To the young people in the room.

00:33:17To the youths of America.

00:33:20Yes.

00:33:20So, Kit is an acronym.

00:33:23So, Kit is Knight Industries 2000.

00:33:26And it is a smart car.

00:33:28And I mean a really smart car.

00:33:31It's basically like a Jarvis in a car.

00:33:34And in a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, in fact, which was not a fact I knew until I researched for this because I'm not a motorhead.

00:33:44But yes, it is a black car that has a smart assistant inside.

00:33:49You know, I'm the smart home lady here.

00:33:52So, I needed my smart assistant.

00:33:54But it's on wheels, which doesn't get much better.

00:33:57It can do everything.

00:33:59Like, literally, I don't think there's anything that Kit didn't do during the however many seasons there were of Knight Rider, which were many.

00:34:06Starring David Hasselhoff, pre-Baywatch, and great.

00:34:11Such a good show.

00:34:13They revived it.

00:34:14I don't think I watched any of that.

00:34:16They did it recently, I think.

00:34:17You didn't miss anything.

00:34:18No.

00:34:19And it's basically a self-aware computer in a car.

00:34:24And Knight Rider, David Knight, who is David Hasselhoff, has a watch.

00:34:29And he can call.

00:34:30So, it's kind of a two.

00:34:31You kind of need both pieces of tech.

00:34:33But he can call Kit to him when he's in danger.

00:34:36And so, like, he uses the watch to communicate.

00:34:39And Kit would, like, just come to the rescue and, like, blow through walls and rescue him.

00:34:45And he has all sorts of, like, sense.

00:34:48I mean, he's a self-driving car to start with.

00:34:52And he has sensors that can, like, means that he, I'm sorry, it.

00:34:57I should not amplify the AI.

00:35:01But it has sensors that can smell, feel, like scanners that can see inside buildings.

00:35:07So, like, when David Hasselhoff, David Knight.

00:35:11Was it David Knight?

00:35:12I get my Davids confused.

00:35:15One of the reasons I'm getting my Davids confused is because, sidebar, my uncle, David Darling, was the stuntman for Knight Rider.

00:35:24What?

00:35:25Very cool.

00:35:26Stop.

00:35:26So, yeah, that was kind of cool.

00:35:28That was one of the reasons I watched it.

00:35:29All right, well, then I'm even happier that you get this one now.

00:35:30Yes.

00:35:30Yeah.

00:35:32Yeah, I mean, it was, it's an AI, you know, today.

00:35:35It's basically, as I said, a Jarvis in a car with every kind of technology you could possibly want.

00:35:41And every sort of scenario Knight Rider got himself into, the car could come to the rescue.

00:35:47And it was also, I think the thing I liked most about Kit, which is sort of what you mentioned about Jarvis, too, is that he, it was very funny and dry-witted and would kind of, you know, sort of say, David, you're being stupid.

00:36:04Yeah, Kit's a good pick because it's also.

00:36:06Oh, Michael, Michael.

00:36:07It was Michael Knight.

00:36:08Sorry.

00:36:08That's right.

00:36:09David Hasselhoff played Michael Knight.

00:36:11Michael, you're being stupid.

00:36:14Sorry.

00:36:14All my names getting mixed up here.

00:36:16This is a good one.

00:36:17But yes.

00:36:17It was also just a sick car.

00:36:19It was a sick car.

00:36:19It could do everything a car you needed to do.

00:36:22It could go in the water.

00:36:23It looked awesome.

00:36:24It would go really fast.

00:36:25It was just like, you would want it just as a car.

00:36:29Yes.

00:36:29But then also, it was also like a cool kind of obnoxious AI best friend.

00:36:35Very obnoxious, but very cool.

00:36:36And there was the gold pendant, which is the other really cool thing.

00:36:41So, so 80s.

00:36:44But he had the gold pendant.

00:36:45He could just, like, if he was in real danger, he could just press the gold pendant and Kit would come.

00:36:50Oh, it was so cool.

00:36:51And I think all this comes with the car, right?

00:36:52Like when you buy the car, the dealership is definitely like throwing in the watch and the pendant with the accessories.

00:36:57Yes.

00:36:58Yeah.

00:36:58And, you know, paired with my TARDIS, I mean, I'm like, I'm set for life.

00:37:03I can do everything I need to, go anywhere I want, and have my AI companion come to my rescue when I'm in those awkward situations that my neuralyzer's not going to help me with.

00:37:15Can Kit fit in the TARDIS?

00:37:17By the rules of the TARDIS, can you bring Kit with you?

00:37:19Yes, I think you can.

00:37:21Okay.

00:37:21Or I can borrow a capsule just to sit in the TARDIS.

00:37:27Into my pocket.

00:37:28A capsule and then fit it into the TARDIS, so.

00:37:30You can put the capsule in my giant pockets.

00:37:33Yeah.

00:37:33And have even more room.

00:37:35Everything can go in Mia's pockets.

00:37:37Mia ends this the most powerful just by virtue of having giant pockets.

00:37:41That's definitely not a chance.

00:37:43All right, Jen, you're up next.

00:37:44But first, let's take a break.

00:37:46And then we're going to do...

00:37:47That's two rounds.

00:37:48We've got three more to do.

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00:39:00Round three.

00:39:01Jen, you're up again.

00:39:02How do you feel?

00:39:02You ready?

00:39:03You got this one?

00:39:04I think I'm going to have to go with Rosie.

00:39:07Okay.

00:39:07Just because.

00:39:08I know.

00:39:09Just because.

00:39:10You're doing the old head picks here.

00:39:11I love this for you.

00:39:12I'm doing the what?

00:39:13You're doing the old head picks.

00:39:16Yeah, that's, you know, Kit and Rosie and Star Trek were all, you know, that's why I became a tech journalist.

00:39:24So, got to follow the theme.

00:39:26And I would have gone for Jarvis because I wanted Jarvis to be my housekeeper, not Rosie.

00:39:31Just because I want to buck the societal trends here.

00:39:34I don't think Rosie should necessarily have to be a woman.

00:39:37I agree.

00:39:37As a household robot.

00:39:39And Jarvis is just a bit hotter, too.

00:39:42I mean, I did get Paul Bettany.

00:39:44So, like, I got that going for me.

00:39:46Explain Rosie's deal for folks who have not seen the Jetsons.

00:39:49Okay.

00:39:49So, Rosie is a household robot.

00:39:53And actually, in the early sort of days of the Jetsons, it was rather, it wasn't actually that very, it wasn't that good.

00:39:59In fact, one of the stories around it was that they couldn't afford the more expensive fancy model.

00:40:04So, they had, like, the older model.

00:40:06But still, Rosie can do a lot.

00:40:09Rosie's basically a humanoid robot that can, on wheels, that can kind of roll around the house and act like a housekeeper, maid, nanny, doing, you know, all the chores that you might need.

00:40:23Because I've spent a lot of time with robots in my home over the last few years.

00:40:28And the one thing I've realized that a robot really does need is some form of arms and limbs to do things for you.

00:40:35If you're going to have a humanoid-type robot in your home that's going to fold your laundry or empty your dishwasher, you need limbs.

00:40:44And Rosie has little claw-like limbs.

00:40:47This is why I wanted Jarvis, because, you know, it looks like an actual person as opposed to, Rosie does kind of look like pieces of scrap metal put together.

00:40:55But still, it works.

00:40:59It gets the job done.

00:41:00And that's what I need.

00:41:01I want something to, you know, do the laundry and put the clothes away and empty the dishwasher, because I have not yet figured out how to get anyone else in my house to do that for me.

00:41:10So, Rosie is my, would definitely, some version of a Rosie I would like in my future.

00:41:17Although I am slightly terrified of the, as much as I find the appendage is useful, I'm also slightly terrified of them.

00:41:26So, I'm curious, in your day-to-day as a smart home reporter, how often would you say Rosie the robot comes up?

00:41:33Because I feel like Rosie is one of the, like, canonical smart home things that everybody is always trying to build.

00:41:39Yeah, it is.

00:41:41It's very, and it's kind of tied from that perspective.

00:41:45It's like, it's what we're holding so much up against.

00:41:49But it's also, I mean, we've had so much technology from TV and movies and popular culture come to reality, because it actually does help push people forward and invent things.

00:42:00And I feel like there's a lot of things we have in our homes today because of Rosie, because people are trying to make Rosie.

00:42:07That's why we have robot vacuum cleaners.

00:42:09You know, I'm not, I mean, I'm sure, I know for a fact that that's, like, some of the idea behind the original robot vacuum was we want to make something that's going to be helpful like a Rosie.

00:42:20So, in that respect, I think, you know, she is in the smart home hall of fame and always will be.

00:42:28That's pretty good.

00:42:29V, you're up next.

00:42:29What Dragon Ball Z thing are you going to subject us to this time?

00:42:33It's not Dragon Ball Z this time.

00:42:36But I do think the rest of my picks are a bit more obscure.

00:42:42Okay.

00:42:42So I'm going to go with the one that I think is least obscure.

00:42:45And it is the Babelfish from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

00:42:48Ah, shit. That was my next one.

00:42:50It feeds on brainwave energy, absorbing unconscious frequencies and excreting a matrix of conscious frequencies to the speech centers of the brain.

00:42:59The practical upshot of which is that if you stick one in your ear, you instantly understand anything said to you in any language.

00:43:08Because I spent a lot of my life studying various languages and V's brain, it hurtie, it tired.

00:43:15There's no room for anything besides English now.

00:43:18So I would like a little fish, little fish friend that translates everybody for me so that when I go on a plane and decide to torture myself on the way to WWDC watching Emilia Perez, I don't have to squint my eyes reading the horrible translations.

00:43:35You know, even though maybe I shouldn't have known what was being sung in that horrible ass movie.

00:43:41That's my review of Emilia Perez.

00:43:43I don't know why I decided.

00:43:45I don't.

00:43:46I can't tell you why.

00:43:47I got the full recap from V after she saw it.

00:43:50On her walk to Dunkin' Donuts.

00:43:53I was on a street reenacting the film for Allison and having a meltdown while doing it.

00:43:59But that's when Allison decided she wanted the neuralizer.

00:44:01She's like, I can't.

00:44:03I'm done with this.

00:44:03This is exactly the situation.

00:44:06Basically.

00:44:07Yeah.

00:44:08No, I was watching a bunch of movies on the plane that were foreign language.

00:44:12I don't know why I decided.

00:44:13No, actually, I do know why, because my husband does not like reading subtitles.

00:44:18So this is very, like I said, all my picks are selfish.

00:44:21I want to be able to watch movies and not have him complain about subtitles and just have the direct translation.

00:44:28Because I wanted to watch Eczema, a Korean horror movie, last year.

00:44:34And I had to do it on a plane.

00:44:35And I kept getting interrupted by the pilot giving safety information.

00:44:39Like, just let me die if the plane crashes.

00:44:41And interrupting plot stuff.

00:44:43So I would have really liked a babble fish at that point in time.

00:44:46So, okay, wait.

00:44:47Let me just quickly make sure I understand the case you're making here.

00:44:50You would like this thing, which if Memory Serves from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a literal fish you shove into your ear.

00:44:56Yes, correct.

00:44:57That real time translates all languages to all languages, right?

00:45:01Yes.

00:45:01Okay.

00:45:02A literal fish that you shove in your ear.

00:45:04You want it so you can watch horrible Netflix movies without subtitles.

00:45:08That's your whole deal here.

00:45:11That's one use case.

00:45:13Also, talking to my family, because I'm the Korean Chewbacca in my family.

00:45:17Like I said, I'm the Korean Chewbacca in my family.

00:45:19I speak English.

00:45:20They speak Korean.

00:45:21And then somehow we understand each other, except like there's always like a word or two that I'm like, context can't math out that meaning.

00:45:29So I would like that for those situations.

00:45:31And I'd like it for when I travel to other places in which I have not studied the language and have no intention to Duolingo my ass into any form of donde esta la biblioteca or whatever.

00:45:44Like, and like I would keep Fred in his own little tank and we would be friends and, you know, I would have a very equitable life situation for Fred.

00:45:54Like, I just don't want an AI because like the appeal of the Babelfish is that he's going to be able to translate my cousin's kid when she says skibbity toilet as to what the fuck that means.

00:46:06So, and that can be translated into all languages because the problem with current AI translators is that they're shit at slang.

00:46:16And so it is, I want to talk to the teenagers in all these different languages and be like, please, brain dump upon me your horrors.

00:46:23I would love to learn more about them.

00:46:25And the language barrier is, they continually contort language into new ways.

00:46:32And I need the Babelfish to do that for me.

00:46:34All right.

00:46:35Fair enough.

00:46:35Weird that it's a fish.

00:46:37Like, it's a real bummer that all of us now have to shove a fish in our ears to make this work.

00:46:41Listen.

00:46:42But sure.

00:46:43Listen.

00:46:44It's cute.

00:46:45Whatever works for you.

00:46:46Yeah, I like it.

00:46:47Mia, you're up.

00:46:49Okay.

00:46:49I have an old head pick.

00:46:51So you guys will appreciate it.

00:46:54My pick are, I'm also like not that young.

00:46:58So I don't know why I said that.

00:47:00We're all in our 70s.

00:47:01It's important to know, except for Mia.

00:47:03Yeah, my emotional age is very old.

00:47:05Um, my pick are the glasses from They Live.

00:47:10Um, if anyone has seen that movie, they are sort of like glasses that have been created

00:47:16to when you put them on, you see which of the people around you are aliens, um, with evil

00:47:24goals.

00:47:25And all like ads or magazines, like it wakes you up to like big advertising and like propaganda.

00:47:34So you'll put the glasses on and you'll look at an ad and it says like, Obey.

00:47:37That's actually where the Obey streetwear logo comes from.

00:47:41Um, or it will, you know, you'll look at like a magazine and it says like, no independent

00:47:47thought.

00:47:48Um, and I, I don't need the glasses.

00:47:52Um, I think other people need them.

00:47:54So I would get a bunch of glasses and give them to people.

00:47:57And actually I, if I can brag for a second, the reason I picked the glasses is because

00:48:03I did a story last year about all the ways that people like change their websites to appease

00:48:08Google.

00:48:09And it was like a step-by-step here are all the reasons.

00:48:12And the novelist Colson Whitehead shared my story and said, reading this was like putting

00:48:17on the, they live glasses.

00:48:19Nice.

00:48:21I'm chasing that high all the time.

00:48:25And yeah, I'm giving these glasses out to a lot of people.

00:48:28Let's just say that.

00:48:29I like them as glasses because it also implies you can take them off and go back to living

00:48:33in like blissful ignorance, which feels important.

00:48:36Yes.

00:48:36They're also sunglasses.

00:48:37I should say.

00:48:38I both do and don't want to know how the world really works.

00:48:41You know what I mean?

00:48:42Yeah.

00:48:42It's like, sometimes I do.

00:48:44And then sometimes I would like to just go home and be fine.

00:48:48I mean, I would like, I would like them to tell me who is lying in a way.

00:48:55Like I, this is so nerdy.

00:48:57I want to know what is like on, um, unidentified SponCon.

00:49:03This is so boring.

00:49:04What if it, what if you put these glasses on and it turns out that like all of the conspiracy

00:49:09theories that we've made fun of on the internet actually turn out to be true?

00:49:12It could be.

00:49:13It could be good to know.

00:49:14Yeah.

00:49:15You just put them on and it's just instantly like the Illuminati is everywhere and you're

00:49:18like, oh my God, they were right.

00:49:20Yeah.

00:49:20It could be.

00:49:21I'm willing to take that chance.

00:49:22But like I said, I don't think I'll be wearing them that much.

00:49:24I'm going to give them to people who need them.

00:49:28It's like media literacy and a wearable form factor.

00:49:31Yeah.

00:49:31You're like a pastor on a street corner, but you're handing out glasses basically.

00:49:37Not sketchy at all.

00:49:38No.

00:49:39Yeah.

00:49:39Here, wear these.

00:49:40You'll see the truth.

00:49:41Like that's, that's going to go great for everybody.

00:49:42No, that's exactly it.

00:49:44That's exactly it.

00:49:45Okay.

00:49:45I like this.

00:49:48Allison, you're up next.

00:49:49All right.

00:49:50I'm going to stay in the realm of film and go with, okay, dinosaur embryos, but only the

00:50:03ones that eat plants.

00:50:05So Jurassic Park could be-

00:50:07Hold on.

00:50:07Is this, are we, is this technology?

00:50:09Are we, are we going to allow this as technology?

00:50:11Because it's the, here's the exact technology.

00:50:14David, thank you for asking.

00:50:15It's the Barbasol can, the Barbasol can that Dennis Nedry has, that has the embryos inside

00:50:23of it.

00:50:24So if you have that, you, I mean, you have to like, I don't know how to turn a dinosaur

00:50:29embryo into a baby dinosaur.

00:50:31So I'll pay someone to figure that out.

00:50:33So I'm starting with the Barbasol can and I'm going to take out the embryos for the

00:50:39Velociraptors and the T-Rex.

00:50:41I'm going to throw those away.

00:50:42We don't need that chaos.

00:50:44And we're just going to have the nice dinosaurs and they can like live in the zoo and it'll

00:50:50be great.

00:50:51I feel like famously, that's not great.

00:50:55You're just describing the first act of Jurassic Park and then it all goes wrong.

00:50:59If you forget, I'm going to use the neuralyzer on myself.

00:51:04Forget everything I learned from Jurassic Park.

00:51:07Just have the, the cute, nice dinosaurs.

00:51:10Maybe I'll make them a little smaller.

00:51:11They don't need to be so big.

00:51:13This is how it starts, Allison.

00:51:16They have feathers.

00:51:17I mean, they'll have feathers.

00:51:18They'll be cute.

00:51:19It looks like we just had a bunch of new birds, like new, new kinds of chickens.

00:51:24I'd much rather have dinosaurs than, uh, what are the, the rats, the woolly mammoth

00:51:29rats they've just recreated?

00:51:31Let's bring back dinosaurs.

00:51:32Yeah.

00:51:33Yeah.

00:51:34Let's bring back dinosaurs.

00:51:34I'm with Allison on this one.

00:51:36I want, I want dinosaurs.

00:51:37I want chicken dinosaurs.

00:51:38I'm only if they're like chicken sized or, or like if we can have them in miniature.

00:51:44Maybe we could put a size lemon on it.

00:51:47I'll have whatever.

00:51:48We're, if you can't hold it in two hands.

00:51:50Life will find a way, Allison.

00:51:51It's too big.

00:51:52Yes.

00:51:52Exactly.

00:51:54Yeah.

00:51:55We just, this is, this is the beginning of, of Jurassic Park.

00:51:58We just did it, everybody.

00:51:59Congratulations.

00:52:00Yeah.

00:52:01I'll hire a lawyer.

00:52:02Jeff Goldblum is going to be here any minute.

00:52:03Yeah.

00:52:04Be good to go.

00:52:05We're going to make a lot of money and then it's all going to fall apart.

00:52:07And I think that's fine.

00:52:08We're going to get really rich along the way.

00:52:10Yep.

00:52:10Uh, wow.

00:52:13That is not what I expected.

00:52:14You just, okay.

00:52:15This is good.

00:52:15Um, all right.

00:52:17I get two now.

00:52:19I spent a lot of time.

00:52:20I don't know if this is a thing any of you spent time thinking about.

00:52:22I spent a lot of time thinking about contact lenses, uh, because this is a thing that comes

00:52:27up in a lot of movies and TV shows, various, they like skip past, you know, AR glasses and

00:52:33they go right to contact lenses to do various things.

00:52:36Um, I have landed on the contact lenses from the movie mission impossible ghost protocol,

00:52:43uh, which is not the best of the mission impossible movies, but basically these contact

00:52:51lenses have two features that I like very much.

00:52:54One is facial recognition, which frankly I could take or leave.

00:52:57Like Neil, I always says that his great thing for AR glasses is like telling who everybody

00:53:02is.

00:53:03That's fine.

00:53:03He can have that.

00:53:04What I want is the other feature, which is essentially just a, a text scanner camera for

00:53:11photographing documents in your day-to-day life.

00:53:13And I'm just thinking for me as someone with a truly God awful memory, I just, I'm just,

00:53:20I'm just running around taking pictures of everything forever.

00:53:21This is like, this is the greatest camera I've ever had.

00:53:24I can remember all the documents that I see.

00:53:26I'd have to spend a lot less time like transcribing stuff out of my camera roll.

00:53:30This is purely like a work device for me.

00:53:33That is just my text scanner for everything all the time.

00:53:37And then I'm going to just pipe it into Apple reminders and just remember everything that

00:53:40ever happened to me.

00:53:41We're so boring.

00:53:42That was crazy.

00:53:43And like when you want to recall it, what do you see?

00:53:46Does it appear in front of your eyes or what?

00:53:49That's a good question.

00:53:50I think I just tell Jarvis, this is, this is what I, this is what I do.

00:53:53I'm curious why the contact lens form factor, because ostensibly one of the many smart glasses

00:54:00across many franchises of, uh, sci-fi would also be able to do this for you.

00:54:07Like why the contact lenses?

00:54:08I just, I, so as somebody who does not wear glasses or contacts, uh, I feel like

00:54:13I would get used to contacts faster than I would get used to glasses.

00:54:17Uh, and please disabuse me of this notion if I am wrong, but I think the idea of like,

00:54:22I'm just going to have this sort of on and with me all day.

00:54:25I think contact lenses would annoy me less, which is my whole reason for choosing this.

00:54:29Your eyes are going to get so dry.

00:54:31Yeah, by the end of the day.

00:54:33So dry.

00:54:34They're going to be so dry.

00:54:35You're going to be wishing you a glasses.

00:54:36I'm going to like beta test one of these and go blind is basically what's going to happen.

00:54:40But you might be right.

00:54:41Is this like photographic memory though?

00:54:44It's essentially photographic memory.

00:54:46That I'm definitely down with.

00:54:47Yeah.

00:54:48Recallable photographic memory is essentially what these give you.

00:54:51And I'm extremely here for it.

00:54:52Did, did, did most of us not covet the neuralyzer because remembering everything is painful?

00:54:58It's a curse.

00:54:59Yeah.

00:55:01Yeah.

00:55:02But in this world, I get to have a neuralyzer anyway.

00:55:04So I'm just, I'm just constantly calibrating.

00:55:06Remembering and forgetting everything as I want to.

00:55:09So I'm taking that one.

00:55:11And then there's a lot, there's a lot more possibilities here.

00:55:14I'm going to take for my next pick, the portal gun from Rick and Morty.

00:55:20Uh, I don't know if any of you have watched Rick and Morty, uh, but basically the portal

00:55:25gun opens up portals to parallel universes and sometimes they know where they're going

00:55:30and sometimes they don't.

00:55:31And it's pure chaos.

00:55:32It is just like a nonstop adventure machine.

00:55:35And you have the gun that can get you to another parallel universe, but also you can

00:55:40use a portal to get back.

00:55:42And I just think as somebody who spends a lot of time sitting here in my basement on Google

00:55:48meet, talking to people, uh, it would be really nice to just be able to like turn around

00:55:52and just like hit up a parallel universe for 20 minutes between meetings.

00:55:55And that feels great.

00:55:57A lot of us want to escape.

00:55:58Yeah.

00:55:59Escape isn't going.

00:56:01I think we need a vacation.

00:56:02Yes.

00:56:05Just go to the beach.

00:56:06Yeah.

00:56:07And it's, you know, I can see some stuff, broaden my horizons, try new things, but then I can

00:56:11always come back.

00:56:12There's just a, I just open up a portal right here in the basement.

00:56:15Nobody even knows I'm gone, but you might go somewhere scary.

00:56:18You don't know.

00:56:19Sometimes, sometimes it is scary.

00:56:20Uh, and sometimes, sometimes that's, I think I also probably have to have Rick with me for

00:56:25this.

00:56:25So I think I'm like bringing the portal gun, but I'm also hiring Rick who is like an insane

00:56:32alcoholic grandpa to come accompany me on these adventures.

00:56:35I'm signing up to be Morty in all of these adventures is what I'm realizing.

00:56:39What a choice.

00:56:39I am the like pathetic sidekick who almost dies over and over, but always has an adventure.

00:56:44And I think I'm ready for that.

00:56:45Ah, geez, Rick.

00:56:46It's just you the entire time.

00:56:48That's me.

00:56:48Yeah.

00:56:49This is, this is the life I'm after.

00:56:51Um, so yeah, I'm taking the portal gun.

00:56:52I think I don't want to like time travel has like too many consequences for me.

00:56:58I think like if we're, if we're opening up the TARDIS, get, just send me to a parallel

00:57:02universe.

00:57:02I can't cause any trouble in a parallel universe.

00:57:04It's fine.

00:57:05But yeah, but I, I, what is, what are you getting out of this?

00:57:10Adventures.

00:57:11Okay.

00:57:11That's it.

00:57:12That's, that's the beauty.

00:57:13He wants to feel alive.

00:57:14I'm going to learn things.

00:57:15I'm going to see new creatures.

00:57:17I'm going to try new stuff.

00:57:18But fundamentally then I feel like I get to come back and I haven't, if I went back to

00:57:23like the Tudors with you and the TARDIS, I'm going to be like, well, I can't do anything

00:57:25or else I might screw up the future forever.

00:57:27I don't want to do that.

00:57:28I get to just go to some weird cartoon universe and then come back.

00:57:33No stakes.

00:57:34Oh, it's all cartoons.

00:57:35Well, in Rick and Morty, it's all cartoons.

00:57:37Presumably my version of it would be real.

00:57:39I don't know.

00:57:40I don't know if you can make that call.

00:57:41Maybe it is all cartoons.

00:57:42If it's all cartoons, I'm even more in and I should have picked this suit.

00:57:45That kind of rules.

00:57:46Yeah.

00:57:49Yeah.

00:57:49I, this, that's my, that's, this could go horribly wrong, but I feel good about it.

00:57:53I'm taking this pick.

00:57:55Uh,

00:57:55Allison, you're up.

00:57:57Okay.

00:57:58Um, in the vein of like, friend, little buddies, I guess.

00:58:03Um, I'm, I'm picking the movie theater from mystery science theater 3000.

00:58:10And what that entails is my little robot friends, Daisy, Gypsy, Tom Servo, all those guys, we're

00:58:19going to sit and watch movies and have a good time.

00:58:22Um, and it's like, you could go there when you want and like watch a bad old movie with

00:58:26your robot friends and then leave, which is not part of the premise of mystery science

00:58:31theater 3000.

00:58:32You were stuck there forever.

00:58:33Um, but, um, in, in my version, you can come and go.

00:58:37This is so wholesome.

00:58:39Yeah.

00:58:39You're just like, I just want to watch movies with my robot friends.

00:58:41I want to hang out with my robot buddies.

00:58:43I have so many good memories of MST.

00:58:46Yeah.

00:58:47Are you, are you on the show by virtue of being in the theater?

00:58:51I think you're just kind of along for the ride.

00:58:53Like, you don't have to make any jokes or anything.

00:58:55Okay.

00:58:56You're just listening to the jokes and it's fun and nice.

00:59:00And then there's a project.

00:59:01They always do like a weird little thing in between, like in between segments where

00:59:06they're like, now we're doing a craft or whatever.

00:59:10It sounds like preschool.

00:59:12And, um, I, I guess I just want to go back to preschool again with the escapism, like

00:59:19you can go anywhere, anywhere, but here big pockets and the ability to go anywhere.

00:59:25Yeah.

00:59:27Yeah.

00:59:28I, I, I love it.

00:59:29I have no notes on this.

00:59:30This is the lowest stakes one yet by a mile.

00:59:32And I'm very happy about this.

00:59:33This causes no societal problems.

00:59:36Nothing, nothing bad happens.

00:59:37You've just created like a new movie theater for a bunch of people to go to that is slightly

00:59:41more fun.

00:59:42And there's a lot there.

00:59:43Most importantly for me.

00:59:45I love it.

00:59:46This is great.

00:59:47Uh, Mia, you're up.

00:59:48Okay.

00:59:49A lot of people are going to be mad at me because I think, I think this could be vetoed.

00:59:54I would like the doorknob that Josie Packer and Twin Peaks gets stuck in.

01:00:03For those of us who have not seen Twin Peaks.

01:00:07Wait, doorknob.

01:00:08Please explain it yet.

01:00:10Have, have people seen Twin Peaks?

01:00:12Okay.

01:00:13In Twin Peaks, there is like the wealthy wife of a mill owner and she gets stuck in a doorknob

01:00:21and it's just never really resolved.

01:00:24She's just in there and it's a doorknob at like a random, I don't think there's anything

01:00:29special about the doorknob, but her face is in there.

01:00:32And I think the last we see of her is she's kind of like, ah, I'm in the doorknob.

01:00:36And like, you know, let me out.

01:00:38But I would use it to trap my enemies.

01:00:41I'm going to be so for real.

01:00:43I'm, there's nothing deeper.

01:00:44I'm putting, I'm putting you bitches in the doorknob.

01:00:47I don't know if I can say that on this podcast.

01:00:48You absolutely can.

01:00:49That might be the title of this podcast.

01:00:50What did we do?

01:00:52Not you guys, but my, my enemies, you know what I mean?

01:00:56And trust me right now, a lot of people would be in that doorknob.

01:00:58I trust Mia's judgment.

01:01:01I give her full authority to just trap her enemy because I feel like Mia's enemies, by

01:01:07and large are humanity's enemies.

01:01:09So I fully trust her to trap these bitches in the doorknob.

01:01:14I don't know if it's a technology.

01:01:16That was going to be my question because I did watch some of Twin Peaks, but I don't

01:01:20remember the doorknob.

01:01:22And how did, do we know how she got in there?

01:01:24Like, was there technology involved in putting her in there or was it, I mean, there was

01:01:28no rhyme nor reason to Twin Peaks really, was there?

01:01:31This is such a good edge case because you're, you're, it both isn't technology and is also

01:01:35completely unexplainable by any other means.

01:01:39Yeah.

01:01:39So I think I have to give this to you because I can't refute it.

01:01:43Like it's not, not technology.

01:01:45Yeah.

01:01:46Someone, someone had to invent the doorknob eventually.

01:01:49Like the doorknob generally, I would say is a technology.

01:01:54I mean, that's, boy, that's a done.

01:01:56That's a great case.

01:01:57I mean, thank you.

01:01:58I also, can we just like quickly psychoanalyze Mia for a second here, who in two consecutive

01:02:03pics has said, I'm going to fix society by giving them real glasses and I'm going to

01:02:07trap bitches in a doorknob.

01:02:10Are we, do you have some, do you have some thoughts about the public we should talk about

01:02:14here for a few minutes?

01:02:14No, I contain multitudes.

01:02:16I both believe in everyone's ability to be better and some people need to be in a time

01:02:21out in a doorknob.

01:02:22This is the smart door lock that we need.

01:02:25True.

01:02:25I was going to go there, but yeah.

01:02:28Yeah.

01:02:28And if we, if it existed now, you know, Ring Doorbell would be integrating that shit immediately.

01:02:35Immediately.

01:02:36You go in the doorknob, Ring calls the cops.

01:02:38Yeah.

01:02:39People, people would want it for like the people who steal Amazon packages.

01:02:43You know what I mean?

01:02:43Like people would be up in arms being like Amazon package thieves into the doorknob.

01:02:47You get sucked into the doorknob if you steal packages.

01:02:53Nothing bad happens to you.

01:02:54You're just in the doorknob.

01:02:55Right.

01:02:56It's just kind of a limbo space until someone gets you out.

01:02:59Yeah.

01:03:00All right.

01:03:00Well, we'll allow it.

01:03:01It's, it's, it's sketchy, but we'll allow it.

01:03:05V, you're up next.

01:03:06It's extremely hard to follow up the doorknob jail.

01:03:10Um, but I think I'm going to go with the sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who, because, um, this

01:03:18is also kind of a cheaty device in the sense that, um, it is a plot hole filler.

01:03:24Doctor Who's kind of lazy this way.

01:03:26I'm discovering.

01:03:26They're just like, here's some stuff that can do everything.

01:03:28You'll, you, you figure it out.

01:03:29But here's how the laziness suits me.

01:03:32And I think society at large, because the, so like, if you've never watched Doctor Who,

01:03:36um, the doctor has a bunch of little doodads and gadgets.

01:03:39And one of them is the sonic screwdriver.

01:03:41It is like, it's like a pen with a little light out in the end.

01:03:44It goes, or whatnot.

01:03:46And anytime the writers have written him into a plot corner, he uses the sonic screwdriver

01:03:51and it gets him out of it.

01:03:52Such that, so like a door's locked, sonic screwdriver opens the door.

01:03:57Gadget broke.

01:03:58Oh, it's fixed again.

01:04:00Oh, I don't know.

01:04:01I don't know what's happening.

01:04:03There you go.

01:04:04So it's sort of like a diagnostic tool and a Swiss army knife fix it gun.

01:04:09Not, not like, or like, you know, it has like, spiritually, I think it's very close to a

01:04:14Tide pen in that, like, oh no, here's this thing that's, that's, that's horrible.

01:04:21Let me just pull out this little pen thing.

01:04:23Oh, it's fixed again.

01:04:24And so like, um, if you can imagine like spiritually a, a digital Tide pen, but instead of, uh, being

01:04:33limited to stains, it can like, it can diagnose what's wrong with your computer.

01:04:38It can, uh, fix a lock that's broken.

01:04:41It can just like, I, I hate home maintenance.

01:04:44So I would love to take my little screwdriver and go and be like, tell me what's wrong with

01:04:48my toilet.

01:04:49Oh, the thing, I, I'm not a plumber.

01:04:52I don't know what's wrong with the thing.

01:04:53That's what plumbers say.

01:04:54I think this is the, the, the thing is broken.

01:04:56And then you just point at it again and go, all my toilets fixed, save $2,000 in, uh, in

01:05:02plumbing bills.

01:05:02Like this is, this is what I want.

01:05:04A little diagnostic fix it tool.

01:05:07It's also small, which I really appreciate about the sign of a screwdriver.

01:05:10It's not, I don't have to figure out where to put a phone booth in my house.

01:05:12This is just like a thing I have in a drawer that solves all my problems.

01:05:15Yeah.

01:05:16I think it's a good one.

01:05:17I like it very much.

01:05:18All right, Jen, back to you.

01:05:19You get two in a row.

01:05:20Oh my goodness.

01:05:21But these are your last two.

01:05:23So don't blow this, Jen.

01:05:26Um, so I, I have one very obvious one and one not so obvious one and they're quite connected.

01:05:32So I'm, I'm happy about this.

01:05:35Um, this I'm going with, because I couldn't not do a Star Trek pick.

01:05:39Um, I am going with the replicator.

01:05:43Damn it.

01:05:44That was going to be my last pick.

01:05:46And for Mia, um, I would explain.

01:05:50Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

01:05:51For the youngs.

01:05:52Because I don't think anyone else listening to this podcast will need, will need the explanation.

01:05:57Sorry.

01:05:57Um, but the Star Trek replicator is a computer, um, that on Star Trek ships, on ships, spaceships,

01:06:07these are, because Star Trek's set in space, um, where you can create pretty much anything

01:06:13you like.

01:06:14Um, so you go up to replicator, you say infamously, and T hot, Earl Grey.

01:06:21And you get T hot, Earl Grey.

01:06:34Um, you can also create anything you need, um, any inanimate matter, as long as it was

01:06:40in the computer's brain and it's programming.

01:06:44Um, so food, basically, this is how they ate on ships, um, and it could create anything

01:06:50you wanted.

01:06:50So this, so I have, so I have my robot helper and then I have my replicator in my kitchen

01:06:55that can just basically do anything I need.

01:06:58I don't, I no longer need to go to the shops.

01:07:00No grocery shopping for me.

01:07:02Um, I can just get whatever I need from my replicator.

01:07:05Is there anything it can't make?

01:07:07Yeah, so it's limited to what it knows about inside its, um, machine memory.

01:07:14Um, and there were, um, it couldn't make like some things that were going to save the ship

01:07:20so that there was a plot line.

01:07:23Like when they needed like some kind of weird material, it would be something that the, you

01:07:28know, to save the ship to like, so Scotty could fix the, the, the, um, engines that he

01:07:35needed and it couldn't replicate that because then there would be no plot left.

01:07:39Um, but it also, what was very cool about it is that it, it could recycle, it, it recycled

01:07:45things.

01:07:45So it recycled matter already on the ship into what you, what your, what you created, what

01:07:52you asked it for.

01:07:53Um, so that was, you know, I mean, a little gross depending on what is recycling and what

01:07:59you're eating.

01:07:59Um, but, but, you know, very eco-friendly, which I think is a good feature for our new

01:08:06tech.

01:08:07I think one of the things it did was like provide air, right?

01:08:10That it was like, it, it's, that's, you get infinite breathable air out of the replicator.

01:08:13It's like that we might, we might need that.

01:08:16We do need that right now.

01:08:17Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

01:08:17So like a 3D printer on steroids.

01:08:20Yeah.

01:08:21Well, but it, and so there were some, depending on, yes, it is a 3D printer on steroids.

01:08:25So yeah, the replicator, it's, it's, um, it's a predictable one, I'm afraid, but we

01:08:30can't not have it.

01:08:31I was going to pick it.

01:08:32I was hoping I would get it last in draft because, you know, all these losers don't

01:08:35even know what Star Trek is.

01:08:37So, uh, what can you do?

01:08:39All right.

01:08:39We're going to get to the very last round, but, uh, let's take one more break before

01:08:42we do.

01:08:46All right.

01:08:46We're back.

01:08:47Jen, you again, last round.

01:08:49Okay.

01:08:50What do you got?

01:08:50My replicator was my last pick and then my, to round out my perfect kitchen and home

01:08:58with my smart car and my robot.

01:09:00You are just building the ultimate smart home for yourself.

01:09:02I'm realizing this now.

01:09:03Like, what if my job as a reporter was done?

01:09:07Yes, exactly.

01:09:08Fixed all the problems.

01:09:09This one, I think, it's a, it's like a glimpse in the movie.

01:09:13It's only there very briefly.

01:09:14Um, but this is the, uh, fruit dispenser in Back to the Future 2.

01:09:21Oh, yeah.

01:09:23It comes out from the ceiling and has freshly grown fruit that you can eat at any time.

01:09:30I love that.

01:09:30And yeah, so I would want that.

01:09:33Like if that, that's the one thing I, if my kitchen could do for me, just give me fresh

01:09:37fruit because.

01:09:38You know, that's great.

01:09:39I love it.

01:09:39It's like having a living wall, but it's fruit in your house.

01:09:42No gross bananas.

01:09:45Right.

01:09:45Nothing's gone bad or rotten.

01:09:48Um, you know, your strawberries aren't moldy.

01:09:51Your bananas aren't inhabitating fruit flies, which is what happens a lot where I live.

01:09:55I live in the South, so there's so much gross stuff that happens to fruit and I have to

01:10:00eat it within the day I get it.

01:10:01And then, you know, I've eaten it all and there's no fruit left by the next, by the end

01:10:04of the week.

01:10:05So I actually saw at CES, um, four or five, no, maybe even six years ago, GE had like

01:10:12a futuristic growing garden kitchen like this where it didn't have fruit, but like everything

01:10:17was sort of growing in the garden.

01:10:20I mean, in the kitchen using like recycled water from the dishwasher and composting, all

01:10:26doing it inside the kitchen.

01:10:27And this kind of felt like the sort of the culmination of that, where you could just press

01:10:33a little button and down from the ceiling comes your fresh, freshly grown fruit.

01:10:37Um, so yes, that's what I would, that's my last piece of my, my ultimate sort of smart

01:10:42home, smart car puzzle that I've put together here.

01:10:46I'm coming over for your fruit.

01:10:47Yeah.

01:10:48That's fine.

01:10:49We can all go over to Jen's house.

01:10:50Everything is taken care of.

01:10:51So Jen's just going to be mega chill about it.

01:10:53I know.

01:10:53It's not even a problem to have lots of people over.

01:10:56This is great.

01:10:57Very true.

01:10:58Like this very much.

01:10:59Jen, I have a really important question is, do you think matter makes all of this stuff

01:11:02work together over time or like matter, matter 2.6 is the one that really makes, makes

01:11:09kit and the fruit dispenser perfectly integrated.

01:11:12Is that, is that, is that what's going to happen?

01:11:14What did you say?

01:11:15Matter 2.6?

01:11:15Matter 2.6.

01:11:16Goodness.

01:11:16Is that too ambitious maybe?

01:11:18That might be.

01:11:21All right.

01:11:21I love it.

01:11:22V, what's your last one?

01:11:24Oof.

01:11:25I had so many backups that now I have to decide between my selfish technology picks because,

01:11:31um, but I think, I think after thinking about it, I have to go with the remote from seminal

01:11:39Adam, uh, Adam Sandler movie, Click, the time controlling remote where you can fast forward

01:11:46through the most painful parts of your life or rewind through some of them.

01:11:50Mainly because, um, I went to a meeting.

01:11:53You do know how this movie ends, right?

01:11:54You're doing a real Jurassic Park thing where it's like, oh, in act one, this seems like

01:11:57a really good idea.

01:11:57And then I turned off the movie.

01:11:59Like, no, I would exclusively, uh, first of all, I haven't seen the movie.

01:12:04I've just know of this from the trailers.

01:12:07This makes sense.

01:12:08Just the concept of, of being able to fast forward through the worst parts of, uh, my meetings,

01:12:15uh, basically.

01:12:16Because I am an anti-meeting person.

01:12:19Mainly, this isn't going to be my soapbox, because 90% of the meetings that I have to sit

01:12:25through ain't worth it.

01:12:27There's like a preamble.

01:12:28There's usually someone coming up and going, let me explain points A through Z, when really

01:12:34you only need points, uh, like Y and Z.

01:12:38And then it's just like, oh, Jesus Christ.

01:12:40And like, you know, maybe this is just journalist specific.

01:12:43It feels important at this moment to tell everyone watching and listening that the context

01:12:47here is that V had a two hour long meeting this morning that she traveled to that 100%

01:12:53should have been an email and has been complaining about it all day.

01:12:56Like 1,000% should have been an email.

01:12:59And if I, it was one of those, gotcha, meetings where it's like, they, they're like, yeah,

01:13:04where you're going to want to know about the thing.

01:13:06And it's like, oh, fuck, I guess I do want to know about the thing.

01:13:09And then you show up and they're like, here's the thing at the very end.

01:13:13And it's like, you're, you're just low, low hum screaming.

01:13:17This could have been an email in your brain.

01:13:19And you get why they wanted you to come out.

01:13:21They wanted everybody to have a little fun, get to know everybody.

01:13:24And that's great.

01:13:26But not for me, not for me specifically, I would have liked to just go press the little

01:13:32button, go droop.

01:13:33And I was like, oh, magically I'm done.

01:13:34I'm at the end of the meeting and they're emailing me all the salient points anyway.

01:13:40So I really haven't missed anything.

01:13:42I just basically would love to fast forward through the most painful parts of, uh, just

01:13:48like, not, not, not, I just want to go through the parts of life where it's just like, this

01:13:55could have been an email all the times that you sit there and you go, this could have been

01:13:58an email.

01:13:59Just done.

01:14:00Jen, Alison, Mia, have any of you seen Click?

01:14:03I've seen the movie and I remember it, how it ends badly, but I've forgotten exactly what

01:14:08happens in the end.

01:14:09So David, you have to enlighten us all.

01:14:11I would say not to spoil this movie for anyone who hasn't seen it.

01:14:14It's actually very good.

01:14:15I'm not going to watch it.

01:14:15People should watch it.

01:14:15Uh, it's, it's in the, like, oeuvre of Adam Sandler movies that are surprisingly pretty

01:14:22good.

01:14:23Uh, Punch Drunk Love, also a good movie.

01:14:25Anyway.

01:14:25So good.

01:14:26Um, the point of Click is that actually living your life is good, I would say.

01:14:30And I do not.

01:14:31I need to help the group to say that too.

01:14:33That's so sweet.

01:14:34I believe that.

01:14:35I believe that.

01:14:36I'm not, I'm not trying to neuralize my life out of anything.

01:14:39I am just saying in the context of useless meetings where we all wish we could just be

01:14:45out of the meeting room sooner, like I will sit through meetings that are important.

01:14:49So you're thinking like, how do we take, how do we take the Click remote and turn it

01:14:53into like B2B software that is only available through my HR platform to skip meetings?

01:14:59Honest to God, I think it would make, cause you would just, I think, I think you could use

01:15:03it very threateningly.

01:15:04So I'm just going to take this as a thing where you're in a, you're in a meeting and you

01:15:07start taking out the fricking Click remote and all the PR people are just start, they

01:15:11start sweating buckets because they know that their meeting sucks.

01:15:14And to, to, to make sure that no one does this in the future, they'll go, oh, we gotta,

01:15:18we gotta revolutionize how we do meetings every, every now and then there's going to

01:15:22be strict agendas of 30 minute cap.

01:15:25And then, you know, I just think the threat of pulling out the, the, the, the remote will

01:15:30make people think twice about how they're wasting your time.

01:15:33It's preventative.

01:15:34All right, Mia, what's your last pick?

01:15:35Okay.

01:15:36I had a hard time picking because spy kids to me was like a formative text.

01:15:41I watched those movies all the time and everything is cool and everything looks great in those

01:15:49movies.

01:15:49But in the end, I went with the most boring thing, which is the microwave that just makes

01:15:54food out of like a packet.

01:15:57I actually don't know if it's like the microwave that I want or the food packets.

01:16:00Like, I'm not sure which is creating it.

01:16:03I think I'll allow you to have both because if, if one exists, somebody is going to make

01:16:06the other.

01:16:06So I think we can will both into existence here.

01:16:09Okay.

01:16:09Yeah.

01:16:09So it looks like a package of popcorn, like microwave popcorn, and you put it in and like

01:16:14hit the button.

01:16:15And one second later, it's like a full meal on a plate and it looks really good.

01:16:19And I hate cooking.

01:16:21My worst, the worst part of my week that I have to do like every single week is plan

01:16:25my lunch.

01:16:27And I like this because like, I feel like a lot of sci-fi like meal replacement things

01:16:32are like, you're taking a pill, right?

01:16:34And it's like the, your food.

01:16:36I do want to eat food.

01:16:37I like to eat.

01:16:38That's a normal thing to like.

01:16:40And I don't want to take a pill.

01:16:41I would like the spy kids food.

01:16:42Right.

01:16:43You don't want the soylent life.

01:16:45No.

01:16:46This does exist.

01:16:47Sort of.

01:16:47Does it?

01:16:48Really?

01:16:49Well, I guess like microwave dinners a little bit.

01:16:53So there's this, and I did review this, it's not quite as futuristic as, but the Tavala

01:16:59oven that I reviewed a while back, which is like an oven that you have a subscription

01:17:04service and they send you pre-packaged meals, but, and you put them in the oven, but it doesn't

01:17:10cook it like a microwave oven.

01:17:11It cooks it all like an oven oven cook meal.

01:17:14And it tastes so much better than a microwave meal.

01:17:18It's not quite as whiz bang as like, like the freeze dried becomes like a whole four

01:17:22course meal.

01:17:23But it's, it's kind of cool.

01:17:24I liked it.

01:17:25It's expensive though.

01:17:27Not the oven, but the food.

01:17:29Right.

01:17:29I also, I worry about having like a subscription to my oven because that seems like the type

01:17:37of thing that would like, my oven would be secretly mining Bitcoin or something.

01:17:41You know what I mean?

01:17:41I'm just like, I don't want to deal with this.

01:17:43But I do like this because in this, in this world, like seven 11 will sell you a bunch

01:17:49of these food packs.

01:17:51You can go to, if I remember right in spy kids, one of the things they make is like

01:17:54a McDonald's meal.

01:17:56They get like a big Mac out of the, the, the thing.

01:17:59Right.

01:17:59So you can just everywhere that will sell you food will also sell you a packet and then

01:18:03you can just redo it yourself at home.

01:18:05Yeah.

01:18:06And I just want everything from spy kids.

01:18:08Like the little, um, dragonfly submarine.

01:18:11Oh, I wanted that so much when I was a kid.

01:18:14Now I'm afraid.

01:18:15Yeah.

01:18:16Now I'm afraid of submarines, but that I want an army of thumbs that will do my bidding.

01:18:22Oh, I need, I need that.

01:18:24That's where I'm escaping too.

01:18:25That's where I'm taking the TARDIS too.

01:18:27Just the world of spy kids.

01:18:28You can come, I'll do the, I'll do the portal gun to the spy kids world and we'll just go

01:18:33hang out there together and it'll be awesome.

01:18:35I love that.

01:18:36Uh, Alison, what's your last pick?

01:18:37Uh, my last pick is just a chaos pick, which is the transmogrifier from Calvin and Hobbes.

01:18:45And let me tell you what the transmogrifier was.

01:18:49It was a cardboard box.

01:18:51It's the invention of Calvin who's what, like five or six or seven.

01:18:55And it has a dial on the side and it's a little arrow and you turn the arrow to the

01:19:02thing you would like to, you put something in the box, close it, turn the dial, and it

01:19:08transforms into the, the thing the arrow is pointing at.

01:19:11So the, um, the given examples are like baboon, eel.

01:19:18Um, I don't think I would go for those.

01:19:20Uh, Calvin transforms himself into a tiger and then he, but then he's just like a cute

01:19:28little version of Hobbes, which was a funny bit.

01:19:31Um, I think it would be funny.

01:19:33I think I would turn like, if I like was going to put on a pair of shoes and I'm like, oh,

01:19:38these don't look quite right.

01:19:40Put them in the transmogrifier, change them to the shoes I want.

01:19:44Or like, maybe it would work for food if I'm like, oh, this isn't, this meal didn't come

01:19:50out the way I want it.

01:19:51I could transmogrify it to the one I did want.

01:19:55Um, there's just a lot of possibilities and I'm, I'm willing to accept the chaos that goes

01:20:01along with it.

01:20:02Also very simple because it's just a cardboard box and a knob and you just kind of write

01:20:05on the side what it is.

01:20:06Yeah.

01:20:06There's room to write in what you want.

01:20:09So in addition to eel and baboon, you just get a Sharpie out and write it.

01:20:16That's pretty good.

01:20:17You, you have by definition between this and Jurassic Park, you have very possibly ruined

01:20:23the world forever.

01:20:24I could probably take over the world just between the two of those cute little dinosaurs and

01:20:29a transmogrifier.

01:20:31Um, you're going to be essentially unstoppable.

01:20:33Yeah, I think so.

01:20:34That's, that's pretty good.

01:20:35I like this for you.

01:20:36All right.

01:20:36I, I have a lot to choose from in my last pick, but I think my last pick is actually

01:20:43going to be fairly straightforwardly the dog collar from up that lets you understand what

01:20:50your dog is saying.

01:20:51Speak.

01:20:52Hi there.

01:20:54Did that dog just say hi there?

01:20:57Oh yes.

01:20:57My name is Doug.

01:21:00I have just met you and I love you.

01:21:03My master made me this collar.

01:21:05He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may talk.

01:21:09Squirrel.

01:21:12Which just is, is a thing.

01:21:13Like I have always said, like if, if a genie showed up and gave me three wishes, one of

01:21:18them for sure would be like, I just want to know what my dog is thinking about.

01:21:21It's all I, it's all I think about all the time.

01:21:23Would it work for cats too?

01:21:25Let's see.

01:21:26Yeah.

01:21:27I feel like by the time, if we have one of these for dogs, somebody is going to like

01:21:30reverse engineer it and figure it out for cats.

01:21:32So sure.

01:21:33But I also feel like cats are just like, this guy sucks.

01:21:36That's all cats are like.

01:21:37We already know what they're thinking.

01:21:38Yeah.

01:21:38Like I don't think, I think we'd like cats less if we knew what they were thinking.

01:21:41I think, uh, whereas like I would, I would love to be able to just like hang out with

01:21:45my dog, see what he's up to.

01:21:47She's got a lot of thoughts wandering around, looking at stuff, sleeping out there.

01:21:52Be great to just be like, how you doing?

01:21:53She's just like, I'm good.

01:21:54Kicking it.

01:21:55I would, I would, this is all I want.

01:21:57Be delightful.

01:21:58I love it.

01:21:59That's so sweet.

01:22:00I would also be really great when they're not feeling well and you'd be like, what hurts?

01:22:04Why?

01:22:04And they could just tell you.

01:22:06Like, well, I ate rocks earlier.

01:22:07I'm like, okay, now I know.

01:22:08I think this is one of those tech, tech ideas that the concept and the idea is probably

01:22:13better than the reality.

01:22:15Yeah.

01:22:15Because the reality is probably just.

01:22:17Oh yeah.

01:22:17I already know.

01:22:18Squirt.

01:22:19I know.

01:22:19Pablo's going to be like, kibble.

01:22:23Yeah.

01:22:24My dog would just be like, I'm tired all the time.

01:22:26That would be it.

01:22:27But I would like.

01:22:28No, great conversation lists probably.

01:22:30No, probably not.

01:22:32But it would make me happy.

01:22:33I would probably just have it for like a day and then be like, all right, I get it.

01:22:35We're done with this.

01:22:36But it would be a great day.

01:22:38So that's my last pick.

01:22:40Before we wrap up and get out of here, any honorable mentions anybody want to throw out?

01:22:43There are a bunch of very obvious things that did not get picked.

01:22:47Nothing from Ready Player One got picked.

01:22:49None of the her stuff got picked.

01:22:52V, I thought you were going to pick the video conferencing glasses from Kingsman that we

01:22:55talk about all the time.

01:22:56You know, they were on my list.

01:22:57I almost picked.

01:22:59They were on there.

01:23:00But I just decided to go full selfish.

01:23:03But my honorable full selfish mention pick, which was not that, is the sonic showers from

01:23:09the Star Wars comics and books.

01:23:12I don't know.

01:23:12Because, yeah, no, no, no, they're not in the movies because ain't nobody poops or takes

01:23:16a shower in Star Wars in the movies.

01:23:19But in the books and the comics where they do have to, you know, deal with the ephemera

01:23:24of life, you basically go into a stall and sound vibrates all the dirt off of you and then

01:23:32you can go on to your day.

01:23:34And I was like, you know, sometimes I don't have time.

01:23:37Like, you can take a shower if you want to with the water and all that nonsense.

01:23:40But, like, if you're in space, you're in a hurry, you can't use all that water.

01:23:45Sound will vibrate all the dirt off of you and you're good to go.

01:23:49Will it wash your hair?

01:23:50Because washing and drying my hair is the bane of my existence.

01:23:53It vibrates the dirt and the oil off of your hair and you're just good to go.

01:23:58I'm in.

01:23:59Yeah, you should have picked this.

01:24:00That's a good one.

01:24:02Listen, the click remote.

01:24:04Yeah, you had to skip meetings.

01:24:05Sure.

01:24:05I'd skip meetings.

01:24:06Yeah.

01:24:06I'd skip meetings.

01:24:08V has her priorities straight.

01:24:10Any other honorable mentions we should mention?

01:24:12Any other favorites that didn't get picked?

01:24:15I almost picked the helicopter hat from Inspector Gadget.

01:24:19Oh, my God.

01:24:20But once I got the hoverboard, I didn't need that anymore.

01:24:21I had a lot of, like, how David gets around things that turned out to be very important to me.

01:24:28But I got the hoverboard, so it was fine.

01:24:30Yeah.

01:24:30I almost, I did want to pick, but I didn't really fit exactly, well, with the Minority Report interface, the computer.

01:24:38Like, I feel like we're really close to that, too.

01:24:41It's so much work.

01:24:42It just seems like a lot of work.

01:24:43I have to, like, you have to stand there and go, like, this for, like, 15 minutes.

01:24:47Like, I'd be so tired at the end of the work day.

01:24:48I feel like the next level of that, because the whole kind of disc thing was a bit much.

01:24:54But I feel like just being able to touch the air and have things happen is what I want.

01:24:58That's what I want to happen in my spot.

01:25:00I will say.

01:25:00I've talked to a lot of XR developers and whatnot, and one thing they'll say is, like, they've tried making that, but the thing that people don't anticipate is how much your arms hurt from doing that all the time.

01:25:10It's like an arm Pilates workout, and they're like, oh, shit, no.

01:25:14Yeah, like, Tom Cruise can do it.

01:25:15I cannot.

01:25:16I don't have a nine to five of just twisting my arms around in me.

01:25:21All right.

01:25:22Well, I think I'm glad nobody picked her.

01:25:24I was really excited to pick a fight with anybody who picked Samantha from her.

01:25:28I will say there is one computer in that thing where he just sits down and, like, talks to his iMac with no mouse or keyboard.

01:25:34He just sort of chats with it about his email.

01:25:36That I kind of like.

01:25:37But I'm good at getting rid of all of that.

01:25:39It seems fun.

01:25:40This is where I have to admit that I've never seen that movie, isn't it?

01:25:43It is a terrific movie, and everyone should watch it.

01:25:45It's so good.

01:25:46I haven't watched that either.

01:25:46It held up amazingly.

01:25:48It really did.

01:25:49I just was on, like, a Joaquin Phoenix band for a while.

01:25:52I'm still on that.

01:25:53That's my main reason.

01:25:54And so then it was just like, oh, damn, people say that one's good.

01:25:57I can understand that, but that movie is excellent, and it holds up.

01:26:01But also, dystopia.

01:26:03Like, I just, it's act one, seems so good.

01:26:08Watch the rest of the movie.

01:26:10That's like, if there's one lesson to learn from all of these, it's watch the rest of

01:26:13the movie.

01:26:14Because sometimes it doesn't turn out so great.

01:26:17That's where it goes.

01:26:19All right.

01:26:20We should get out of here.

01:26:21The four of you.

01:26:22So by the time anybody hears this or sees this, I will be gone, and the four of you

01:26:26will be in charge of all things forever and ever.

01:26:30You're going to have so much fun this summer.

01:26:32It's going to be weird.

01:26:34It's going to be delightful.

01:26:36I'm very excited for the four of you.

01:26:38Do you have, like, a cool, like, crew name yet?

01:26:42Hot Girl Vergecast Summer.

01:26:44Hot Girl Vergecast Summer.

01:26:46Okay.

01:26:47So when you are hearing this, as of this moment, Hot Girl Vergecast Summer has officially

01:26:51begun.

01:26:52And it may never end.

01:26:54It may never end.

01:26:54It's never going to end.

01:26:56It's endless summer.

01:26:57Endless Hot Girl Vergecast Summer.

01:26:59It's a state of mind.

01:27:02It's beautiful.

01:27:03All right.

01:27:03Well, thank you all for doing this.

01:27:04This was delightful.

01:27:05We will put all of our picks and a poll of some kind in the show notes when this episode

01:27:10goes live, so go vote, tell us who won, figure out something to do for them.

01:27:15Thank all four of you for doing this.

01:27:17This was incredibly fun.

01:27:18We're going to have to do this again sometime because there's, like, a shocking amount of

01:27:20stuff let's talk about.

01:27:22So we will do this again.

01:27:24Thank you all.

01:27:24This was great.

01:27:25All right.

01:27:25That is it for the Vergecast today.

01:27:27Thank you so much to V and Allison and Jen and Mia for being here and for taking over

01:27:32the show this summer.

01:27:32Again, you are in incredibly good hands.

01:27:34And thank you, as always, for listening.

01:27:36If you think of stuff that we missed on the show or just have ideas or thoughts, if you

01:27:41think we should probably do another one of these drafts, because I think we should too,

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01:27:48Send us an email, vergecastatheverge.com.

01:27:50We absolutely love hearing from you.

01:27:51I may pop up in the feed once or twice this summer, but for the most part, I'm going to

01:27:56be out for the next couple of months, and I will see you again September or so.

01:28:01I am very much looking forward to it.

01:28:02I will miss all of you terribly, but you're going to have an awesome, awesome summer here.

01:28:06This show is produced by Eric Gomez, Brandon Kiefer, and Will Poore.

01:28:12The Vergecast is a Verge production and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

01:28:15Jake and the gang and Neelion, who knows, some people will be here for some shows all summer.

01:28:20You're going to have a blast, and I can't wait to be back with you soon.

01:28:22Until then, we'll see you then.

01:28:24Rock and roll.

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