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Let’s Weekend #440 – The Onion Rocks

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In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about Trump's abysmal cabinet picks, the big issue with the new Wicked dolls, and The Onion's big win. All this and more, up next!

  • Intro
  • What Are We Up To?
    • C: One Piece, Cobra Kai, Playdate
    • P: RetroAchievements, streaming again, resituating my own mind for YouTube
    • B: Tren, A Hat In Time, The Expanse, estate stuff.
    • Brandon’s Random Factoid
    • Assholes of the Week: Trump’s cabinet picks are full of the worst people possible, Senate Republicans want access to the House ethics probe on Matt Gaetz
      • Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years in prison
      • Federal judge blocked Biden admin’s rule to expand overtime pay to millions more salaried workers
      • 4 LA residents were arrested after they used a life-sized bear costume to stage attacks on their cars to commit insurance fraud
      • Heroes of the Week: The Onion won the auction for Free Speech Systems, Alex Jones’ company, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, which is under review by the bankruptcy judge now
      • Federal judge blocked Louisiana law that required classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
      • The GOP retains control of the House to give them full control of Congress
        • Senate GOP picks John Thune to be their Majority Leader in January
        • SCOTUS refused to give Mark Meadows a legal lifeline with his Georgia election interference case
        • Malcolm X’s daughters sue the CIA, FBI, and NYPD over the civil rights leader’s assassination
        • Harriet Tubman was posthumously named a one-star general in Veterans Day ceremony
        • A human bird flu case is thought to be found in Canada for the first time
        • Transformers, My Little Pony, and Phase 10 join the National Toy Hall of Fame
        • Mattel accidentally printed the URL of a porn site on the back of their Wicked Fashion Dolls
        • Conan O’Brien will host the Oscars
        • We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Back in Action
        • We got a teaser trailer for The Last Showgirl
        • We got a teaser trailer for Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning
        • We got an official trailer for Netflix’s The Madness
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