Great news for fans of ‘Home Alone,’ you can rent out the famous house the McCallister’s left their child in through Airbnb this holiday season and Buzz will host you (00:19:29). Also the CEO of Better.com fired over 900 employees callously in a zoom meeting this week (00:21:15). (00:00:00) - Timestamps Cup of Coffee in the Big Time (00:09:01) - Fun Fact: Beatles’ song Michelle was inspired by Paul McCartney’s favorite technique for hitting on women (00:10:49) - Holidays: National Brownie Day, Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day, Feast of the Immaculate Conception Day (00:13:05) - This Day in History: 1969 - Nixon announces the Vietnam War ended; 1980 - John Lennon was shot and killed (00:16:31) - Honorable Mentions: Very sad news as Nick Cannon announces his five month old son passed away (00:19:29) - #3 - The ‘Home Alone’ house is available for rent on Airbnb, sort of (00:21:15) - #2 - The CEO of Better.com fired 900 employees on a zoom call during the holiday season (00:28:20) - #1 - Amazon had major outages across all sorts of Amazon services (00:34:54) - A Turkish chef cut off the head of one of his new employees calling him the antichrist (00:39:50) - Several big food providers are making a big move to insect protein to mimic popular foods like tuna and burgers TikTok International Moment (00:49:41) - UK - An englishman traveled from tip to tip in the UK in the smallest car in the world and it took him 19 days (00:53:21) - France - A treasure hunter found hundred of thousands worth of emeralds in a plane that crashed into Mont Blanc in the 1960s (00:55:55) - Russia - Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden meet on tense two hour long zoom call These stories, and much more, brought to you by our incredible sponsors: http://Decked.com/HARDFACTOR and get free shipping (on a badass truck bed drawer system) http://Talkspace.com - Promo Code: HARDFACTOR for $100 off http://trycaliper.com/factor - Get 35% off your first order of Caliper CBD when you use promo code FACTOR Go to store.hardfactor.com and patreon.com/hardfactor to support the pod with incredible merch and bonus podcasts Leave us a Voicemail at 512-270-1480, send us a voice memo to [email protected], and/or leave a 5-Star review on Apple Podcasts to hear it on Friday's show Other Places to Listen: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Lots More... Watch Full Episodes on YouTube Follow @HardFactorNews on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook

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