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

I'm your friend David Pierce, and if you're seeing this or hearing it, it means I'm already dead.

No, I'm just kidding. It just means I'm out on parental leave. I'm going to be gone through the rest of the summer.

Nilai Patel, my co-host is going to be gone probably sometime after me, but he's

going to be gone for the summer too. We're going to be back this fall, and we're going to be so

excited to hang out with all of you and talk tech again after talking about just baby stuff for months.

We're very excited, but in the meantime, you are in exceptionally good hands. Jake Casternakis on our team

is going to be taking over the Friday show for the summer,

and we have four guest hosts who are going to be with you all summer on the Tuesday show. And they are also my four guests today.

V-Song, Alison Johnson, Jen Tui, and Miyasato are going to be hosting the show, and they have some big ideas about all the different kinds of stories that they're going to tell you. They've been working on some really fun stuff.

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

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

So I invited the four of them for my last episode here this summer to come with me and do something

I've been wanting to do for a long time, which is look through the annals of movies and TV shows and all of the

technology and all of them and try to decide what we would actually want in our life.

So we're going to do a bit of a draft today. The five of us, we're going to pick five things each,

and it's going to be chaos, and we're going to try to figure out what fictional tech do we

want in our real lives. All that is coming up in just a sec.

But first, we've got to take a quick break because presumably I got to go to some kid stuff.

I don't know.

This is the Vergecast.

We'll be right back.

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