On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk the bad and good stuff happening at the end of 2021, how NASA has touched the Sun, and the latest Nic Cage movie.
IntroWhat Are We Up To?F: Wheel of Time, The Expanse, Power On, PCBS, and random retro things. C: Spider-Man, The Witcher S2, Hawkeye, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Gunk, Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5B: Frostpunk, assorted PSN nonsense, shit ton of rain. Brandon’s Random FactoidAssholes of the Week: Tornadoes decimated large parts of the midwest from Missouri to Kentucky with 92 dead as of todayAmazon were particular assholes as they refused to let workers get to safety until it was too lateUS Navy base in Hawaii had a petroleum leak that contaminated Honolulu’s drinking water supply, forcing 3k military members and family to be relocatedCapitol insurrectionist gets biggest sentence yet with over 5 years for attacking policeKellog’s reached a tentative agreement with strikers, then email leaked revealing there’s no real change and mocks themHouse votes to hold Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with January 6 committeeHeroes of the Week: FDA relaxes restrictions on abortion pills so that they can be mailed to approved patients instead of having to pick it up in personClaudette Colvin’s segregated bus arrest that happened before Rosa Park’s arrest has finally been expunged from her recordJudge rejects Purdue Pharma’s opioid settlement that would protect the Sackler familyJudge allows Dominion’s defamation case against Fox News to continue after declining to dismiss the caseUS Military moves to start dismissing members for refusing to get vaccinatedNYC’s new mayor elect picks NYPD’s first woman to lead as commissionerRIP Anne RiceCA Gov. Newsom uses Texas abortion law as framework to craft assault weapons banFox News host Chris Wallace left to join CNN’s streaming serviceLog4j exploit found that affects nearly everything written in JavaKraft is willing to pay people $20 to not buy cream cheese for their dessertsNew world record millipede found in Australia with over 1300 legsNASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first known spacecraft to enter the Sun’s atmosphereBob’s Burgers’ Jay Johnston fired for attending the Capitol InsurrectionWe got a trailer for Everything Everywhere All At OnceWe got first trailer of The Unbearable Weight of Massive TalentContact us at
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