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I'm your host, Julia Galeith, and today I'm talking to Zach Weiner-Smith.

Zach is the author of one of my all-time favorite web comics. It's called Saturday morning

breakfast cereal, and it sort of lives in the intersection of philosophy, dark humor, and

silliness, which is like Julia's happy place.

And Zach's been a guest on the show before several years ago.

But the reason he's returning today is that he has a new book coming out with his wife, Kelly Weiner's Smith.

It's called Soonish, Ten Emerging Technologies that'll Improve and or Ruin Everything.

Zach, welcome back.

Yeah, I'm excited.

It'll be fun to talk about crazy nerd stuff.

Excellent.

Yeah, this book, so just to give a little more context on the book for our listeners,

reading it is like sitting at the bar with your two nerdiest friends who are

slightly drunk and slightly hyperactive and are friends with a lot of top scientists and have

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