Welcome everybody to the Tech Mem Ride Home experience for Wednesday, December 1st, 2021.

We are joined today by a very special guest. We have Vlad from

Bloomberg here and we're going to be talking about gaming and free to play games

and how the gaming economy is changing but we've got a lot of

other news that's been going on in the last couple days that really really

deserves some some inspection and that primarily concerns Jack Dorsey, of course leaving

Twitter as CEO, followed by a fairly epic announcement today that a square is being renamed blocks and I don't know Brian what's your

first take and then we'll really get into this?

How long of a sigh?

I do.

First they told me to call Google Alphabet and I said nothing.

Then they told me to call Facebook Meta.

Okay.

The thing is, we've already discussed this to a certain degree

where I feel like, you know, the easy analogy is the hey fellow kids sort of meme thing.

But at this point...

This is your favorite meme though.

You really like that one.

It is. Well, listen, What's His Face lives in my neighborhood.

He throws the big Halloween party every year. Steve Buschimi, yes. You literally meant the gift guy or Jeff, whichever, you know.

Steve Busheme lives down the hill for me.

He did this Halloween dress up as the Hello Fellow Kids.

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