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Well, we made it four episodes before our first emergency pod, Kevin.

I've always wanted to do an emergency podcast, but actually doing it is a little more frantic than

I would have anticipated. I'm Kevin Russe. I'm a tech columnist at The New York Times.

And I'm Casey Newton from Platformer, and you're listening to an emergency edition of Hard4.

It's about 8 p.m. Pacific on Thursday night. No part of me thought that this was how I was

going to be spending my Thursday evening. I am frankly a bit shocked that this actually

happened. Elon Musk, as of a couple hours ago, is the new owner of Twitter.

You know, even just hearing you say it out loud, it sounds so real.

It is going to take a while for it to sink in, as Elon might say.

It sounds a little bit like the front page headline in like a movie, you know, about the future.

Space magnate buys micro-blogging platform.

You know, it's just like, but this is real. This happened just a couple hours ago. I read it with my own eyes.

And the best part is that we have basically no idea what is going to happen next.

Yes. Okay. So Casey, let's just catch up on what has happened. So on Wednesday, we learned that

Elon Musk was actually at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. And not only was he there,

but he brought a site gag with him. Yeah, this was one of the weirdest parts of this whole thing.

He shows up at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco, carrying like a sink.

And the whole point of this was to be able to make a joke on Twitter that said, let that sink in.

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