Well, well, well, here we go. Welcome to Wednesday, January 19, 2022.

It's first thing with Kevin Mano, my Lee Cyrus is Godmother celebrating a birthday today.

That would be the one and only Dolly Parton.

My favorite Dolly fact is that she wrote, I will always love you and Joleen in the same day.

Always start with our top stories yesterday.

A day before the site was scheduled to go online, the White House rolled out a soft launch of its website for Americans to request free at home COVID tests.

The site COVID tests.gov. I'll link that in our Instagram stories if you want it.

It lets you access an order form run by the Postal Service.

People can order four at home tests per residential address.

It is scheduled to officially launch sometime mid-morning today.

And again, the site is linked at first thing pod on Instagram.

Microsoft is throwing down some serious dough to acquire Activision Blizzard, $68.7 billion in an all cash deal.

How? How?

I can't even wrap my mind around numbers like that. It's the biggest tech deal ever.

Activision is behind games like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, even Candy Crush.

Are you going to be able to play Call of Duty as Clippy the Helpful Paperclip?

No, I hope so.

This could take up to 18 months to be approved, so it's expected to close sometime in 2023.

And from what I understand, the whole deal is basically Microsoft really betting big on the future of the metaverse,

where we'll be able to work, play and socialize online.

And in a minute, I'm going to have one more big story for you.

If you heard the show yesterday, you heard about the rock and his T-Rex skull.

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