Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of a very specific kind of pest control.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am sitting here doing a project I've been putting off for

years, which is going through my surprisingly enormous collection of sports cards to see if any

of them are worth anything.

They've just been sitting in a box.

I really loved collecting them as a kid,

and now I just have binders and binders full of them sitting around.

I don't know if any of them are worth anything,

but I found this app, thank you technology,

that lets you just scan the front of the card,

and it'll immediately identify it and tell you if it's worth

anything. The app's called Ludex, and I have no idea if it's legit, but so far it's told me

all of the cards I have are essentially worthless. We'll see. I got a lot of them to go through.

All you need is one, right? Anyway, that's not we're here to talk about. We are going to do two things on the show

today. First, I'm going to talk to Will Poor about a very strange adventure he had after getting

home from vacation and discovering what was going on inside of his sonos. Then I'm going to talk

to Andrew Marino about an adventure he's been on trying to figure out whether all of these AI generated podcasts

are actually up to something. Lots of fun stuff. We have a hotline question about smart lights,

lots to do, lots to get to. All that is coming up in just a sec. But first, I've decided I'm

going to scan these cards until I find one that is worth $20. That doesn't seem like too much to ask.

$20.

We're going for it.

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