Welcome to the

the Birchcast, the flagship podcast of dedicated streaming hardware.

I'm your friend David Pierce and if you're seeing this I'm already dead.

I'm just kidding. I'm on vacation right now as you're listening to this or seeing it on YouTube, I am probably in the woods of Vermont, I don't know, running up and down a mountain or whatever you do when you're in the woods. The point was just to like get away,

find somewhere with fewer screens and more trees and just spend two weeks detoxing.

And detoxing sounds like more aggressive than I actually mean it.

I kind of like life with screens.

It's all I think mostly fine, but it's nice to have a break every once in a while.

And I will say when I go even like a day or two sort of deliberately turning all of that off.

It is really rejuvenating in the way that just totally resetting usually is.

Anyway, while I'm gone, we've prepared some really fun stuff for you over the next two Tuesdays.

So we're forever experimenting with new ideas and new formats and even new shows we might want to

launch at The Verge.

And mostly they just live like in meetings and Google Docs and their ideas and things we want to do but we figured while I'm gone

Let's try some stuff out so what you're going to hear from us over the next two weeks is two versions of two different ideas we've had.

One is kind of a rewatch show and one is kind of a debate show.

Just new ways to talk about tech.

Still should still feel like the verge cast, it's going to be people you recognize

but we want to just try some new ways of talking about this stuff that we don't do on

this show typically maybe they'll be segments maybe they'll be new shows

maybe you'll hate them and we'll never do them again

who knows but we're gonna try some stuff

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