Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of neutral grounded wires.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am in the backyard of my new house.

I was going to do this inside, but there's some people working on the floors.

I'm actually here to do a stain test, which is a thing I didn't know existed until today.

These are the things you learn when you're owning a home.

And I'm like standing here

filming this and I'm just looking and I can see all these leaves behind me that I have to rake. I broke a rake yesterday trying to rake these leaves and I'm still not done. This is what I'm in for trying to own a house. It's going to be a disaster. And actually, that is what we're here to do on this episode. So this is the second of our two-part series with Jen Toey about the smart

home. And today, Jen is what we're here to do on this episode. So this is the second of our two-part series with Jen Tooie about the smart home. And today, Jen is going to smarten up my house, literally my home. We're going to go room by room through this empty house. And she's going to help me figure out not only what I should do to make my house a little smarter and a little more useful, but even just what's possible. This whole thing requires a lot of imagination,

and Jen's going to help me make sense of what's good and what's worth the money,

and more importantly, what isn't.

All that's coming up in just a sec.

But first, real quick, I just want to tell you,

we are shooting the next series of version history episodes next week.

And the big thing we want for this next round of episodes is your input. So two of the episodes, I just want to tell you about two of the episodes that we're doing. You can see the whole list on our website. But two that we're doing are the game Flappy Bird and AOL and Sue Messenger, AIM. So if you have thoughts or questions or you want to share a memory of either of those two things,

call the Vergecast Hotline, 866, Virgin 1-1, or send us an email, Vergecast to theverge.com. Again, Flappy Bird and AIM. I want to hear all of your thoughts, all of your memories, all of the tweets you sent about how much you hated Flappy Bird. If you remember your high score, I want to know what it was, send us everything. They're all going to be in the episodes.

It's going to be super fun.

We have tons of fun stuff coming up for you on that feed. high score, I want to know what it was. Send us everything. They're all going to be in the episodes.

It's going to be super fun.

We have tons of fun stuff coming up for you on that feed over the next several weeks. But that's enough of that. Let's get to the show. I just realized I need to go home because the internet is not yet turned on here. So I'm going to go home. I'm going to get back in the studio. we're going to call Jen, we're going to get to it.

This is the Vergecast.

We'll be right back.

Support for this show comes from the Home Depot. get back in the studio. We're going to call Jen. We're going to get to it. This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back.

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