Draft of the Ages: rules and past picks

Subtitle: DC: Break Room Bananas

Episode 600 prompts us to revisit predictions from episode 500 and make some new ones for episode 700. We also cover new AirTags and Apple's plans to fix Apple Intelligence.

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