by Filippo DinolfoOn this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend: Weinstein gets convicted. COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on the global economy. Indiana Jones 5 gets a new Diretor. Disney adopts Impossible Burger. Plus, much more!
2/28/2020 Show Notes
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- F: Picard, WoT.
- P: NHL 20 *grumble*
- T: CivVI, Yoshi’s Crafted World, Dragonball
- C: Pokemon, King of the Hill, Futurama, Streaming
- B: Metro Exodus, AC Odyssey, books, music.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape, acquitted of top charges
- Dumbass of the Week: Flat Earther/Daredevil Mike Hughes died in homemade rocket crash trying to prove Earth was flat for Science Channel special
- Hero of the Week: Seattle NHL franchise subsidizes public transportation to games
- Essentially, your game ticket doubles as your transit pass for the night.
- RIP Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician
- Bernie Sanders wins Democrat Primary Caucus in Nevada
- ABC suspends journalist David Wright after Project Veritas video of him at NH primary
- Trump campaign is suing NY Times for libel over opinion article in 2019
- House approves historic bill making lynching a federal crime named after Emmett Till
- Federal appeals court blocked Trump admin from sending asylum seekers to Mexico
- COVID-19 Roundup
- Over 2,800 dead, 83,000 infected so far with spikes in S. Korea and Italy
- IOC’s Dick Pound says they’ll decide in 3 months whether to cancel Olympics
- Head of Iran’s COVID-19 task force downplaying virus is infected with it
- US has their first case of community-spread COVID-19 in Sacramento
- Trump put Pence in charge of admin’s response to COVID-19
- US Dow suffers worst week since the financial crisis of 2008
- Steven Seagal charged by SEC with unlawfully touting cryptocurrency
- That fatal Tesla crash two years ago was because driver was playing games on phone
- Walmart’s looking to launch an Amazon Prime competitor called Walmart+
- Disney’s adding Impossible burgers to its park menus
- The next big Star Wars publishing campaign is called Star Wars: The High Republic
- Indiana Jones 5 won’t be directed by Steven Spielberg, but likely James Mangold
- HBO Max gets exclusive Friends reunion special
- Best Picture Winner Parasite will be exclusively on Hulu in April
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