by Filippo DinolfoOn this episode of Let’s Weekend: Oil prices go into the negative numbers. Injecting disinfectant is a bad idea. A cavalcade of COVID-19 news. Plus, some good stuff to watch on Netflix.
4/24/2020 Show Notes – Free Dumb
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- F: WoT reread, waiting for the weather to stabilize.
- P: 8TB HDD, bass guitar, clean apartment, Peach Red Bull, and stock portfolio (and perhaps getting put on some sort of list…)
- C: Brooklyn 99, Blazing Saddles, Rocket League, American Truck Sim, Animal Crossing, No Man’s Sky
- B: Red Dead 2, books, anime.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: GA Gov. Kemp reopened Georgia today for certain businesses despite even Trump’s criticism
- Las Vegas mayor displayed some major asshole vibes in Anderson Cooper interview
- Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick: “There are more important things than living.”
- Trump claims he was being sarcastic about injecting disinfectant into people or using UV light or heat to kill COVID-19
- Many big companies got loans from that small business loan fund and won’t return the funds
- Heroes of the Week: Healthcare workers have been counterprotesting the dumb anti-quarantine protests
- COVID-19 Dump Truck
- Nearly 2.8 million cases, 195k deaths worldwide, 51k deaths in US
- The first US victim of COVID-19 happened weeks earlier in San Jose
- House passes $484b COVID-19 relief package for small businesses and hospitals
- Trump demands USPS to raise prices to get bailout funds
- WH Adviser Stephen Moore compares right wing protestors to Rosa Parks
- Study finds hydroxychloroquine offers more deaths, no benefit to VA subjects
- US oil prices crashed into the negative this week for the first time
- Another 4.4 million applied for unemployment, making it 26.5 since March 14
- Neiman Marcus will be the first major US retailer to file for bankruptcy
- Virgin Australia goes into administration with almost $7 billion in debt
- Germany cancels Oktoberfest, Spain’s Running of the Bulls canceled
- National Spelling Bee canceled for the first time in 75 years
- We need to talk about Utah’s Amber Alert system
- 2019: “gry Toyt”
- 2020: absolutely nothing
- Australia will require Facebook, Google to share advertising revenue with the media
- WB revealed new dates for a bunch of its DC movies and others
- Sony’s Venom sequel gets delayed to 2021 and a new name
- Sony also delays their two Spider-Man movies
- A new Star Wars series in the works for Disney Plus from Russian Doll co-creator
- Netflix comedy movie The Lovebirds will be out May 22
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