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Let’s Weekend #455 – No Mandate

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In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the one notable event from the State of the Union address, SpaceX's latest mishap, and which company will be the next victim of private equity firms.

  • Intro
  • What Are We Up To?
    • C: Daredevil: Born Again, Avowed, Balatro
    • B: Trails Into Daybreak II, Lost Records Bloom & Rage, The Secret History, Grandma’s estate
    • Brandon’s Random Factoid
    • Assholes of the Week: After firing hundreds of CDC employees, some received emails rescinding their firings, Nearly 6k USDA workers that were fired have been ordered back to work
      • Trump’s working on an executive order to call on new DOE Sec. Linda McMahon to close the DOE
      • DOD’s DEI purge featured a blanket removal of items with “gay” in the title, like information on the Enola Gay plane and service members with the last name Gay
      • SpaceX had another rocket launch explode, causing flights in its debris path in Florida to be delayed
      • Heroes of the Week: Australian James Harrison, who had a rare antibody in his blood and donated blood over 1k times to save over potentially 2 million babies, has died
        • Rep. Al Green was removed from the House chamber for heckling Trump’s speech that he didn’t have a mandate for his sweeping changes, House GOP + 10 Dems voted to censure him
        • Walt Disney Animation Studios workers have ratified their first union contract
        • Trump’s Tariff Toilet
          • Trump implemented last minute 25% tariffs on Canada/Mexico, plus an increase on China
          • The US stock markets plunged quickly, wiping out any gains since November
          • China imposed tariffs of up to 15% on US farm imports
          • Trump gave automakers a one month reprieve from his tariffs
          • Trump then signed an executive order to exempt goods covered by the USMCA
          • Trump signed an executive order to establish a government bitcoin reserve
          • EU is proposing a big defense spending package after Trump’s denied support for EU allies
          • Walgreens has been acquired for a private equity firm for nearly $10 billion
          • California man was charged after stealing $25k in LEGO
          • Scientists start their journey to bring back the Woolly Mammoth by making woolly mice
          • Investigators figured out the causes of Gene Hackman and his wife’s deaths
          • Disney laid off under 200 people from its TV & ABC News operations, plus shutting down 538
          • Sony’s working on a new Resident Evil reboot movie for 2026
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