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Let’s Weekend #446 – New Year, Same Crap

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In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the awful attacks across the US on New Year's Day, the death of Jimmy Carter, and the big new Surgeon General warning about alcohol.

  • Intro
  • What Are We Up To?
    • C: Squid Game S2, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, One Piece, Cunk on Life, Christmas Vacation, Madden 25, College Football 25
    • B: Nine Sols, Nioh, modding Skyrim, new computer, freezing my ass off.
    • Brandon’s Random Factoid
    • Assholes of the Week: Man drove through a crowd early on New Year’s Day in the French Quarter in New Orleans to kill 15 people and dozens more injured, FBI confirms that he acted alone
      • A man set a Cybertruck to explode out front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas with himself as the only person that died
      • Woman who was hit by a car and shot in the foot during the NO killings was denied a leave of absence from her Amazon job before reversing the decision when the story went viral
      • Trump will finally be sentenced in his NY hush money case on January 10, but it won’t include incarceration
      • Heroes of the Week: Biden is awarding the Medal of Honor to seven US Army soldiers who served in the Korean and Vietnam wars
        • He’s awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to former Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson for leading the congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection
        • NC Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of murder to life in prison without parole as one of his final acts in office
        • RIP President Jimmy Carter
        • House Speaker Mike Johnson was reelected as Speaker despite some early holdouts
        • Biden is blocking the $14.9 billion takeover of US Steel by Japan’s Nippon
        • US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy calls on Congress to require health warning labels on alcohol
        • A plane crashed on the runaway at a South Korean airport and burst into flames, killing 179 people
        • Squid Game Season 2 had 68 million views to make it Netflix’s best debut week ever
        • The Batman 2 was delayed to 2027
        • We got an official trailer for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
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