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Aug 2021
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The Metaverse

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Look out everyone, the metaverse is coming! As we continue down the current dystopian hellscape timeline we’re all stuck in, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the Silicon Valley eggheads have a new product they’d like to pitch you: what if you were just always inside the internet all the time? Also Tim shares his big complaint about the Statue of Liberty.

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