Let’s Weekend #228 – The Proof is in the Pudding

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend: We’ve got a big load in the COVID-19 Dump Truck, some good and bad SCOTUS decisions, and one classic 90s game show that is out now on Netflix.

7/10/2020 – The Proof is in the Pudding

• Intro
• What Are We Up To?
  • P: Air conditioning(!!!), retro mini consoles, VACATION
  • T: Bad luck week, ACNH, caught up on Castlevania seasons, took a COVID-19 test
  • C: Supermarket Sweep, Rocket League, Golf on Mars
  • B: For Honor, books, anime, PSN issues.
• Brandon’s Random Factoid
• Assholes of the Week: Driver barreled into protesters in Seattle, killed 1 & injured another
  • ICE wants international students on visas to leave country if their college goes for online-only courses this fall
  • Many churches and other religious orgs got approved for PPP loans
  • Couple that tried to paint over a BLM street mural charged with a hate crime
  • Home Depot Karen got arrested for battery trying to fight video taker and getting her ass beat
• Heroes of the Week: Dominion and Duke Energy canceled plans for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project
  • Federal Judge orders Dakota Access Pipeline to be shut down for review
  • Lt. Col Vindman retiring from military due to WH campaign of bullying, intimidation, and retaliation
  • San Antonio Spurs’ Patty Mills donating his salary to social justice causes
• COVID-19 Dump Truck
  • 12.4 million cases ww, 558k deaths, 3.2 million cases US, 134k deaths
  • Spain’s COVID-19 antibodies study shows herd immunity is not possible
  • Trump’s Operation Warp Speed commits $1.6 billion to vaccine maker Novavax
  • Trump wants to force state and local leaders to reopen schools in the fall 
  • 1.3 million people filed for unemployment last week, 48+ million in 15 weeks 
  • Michael Cohen’s going back to prison after refusing terms of home confinement 
  • Broadway vet Nick Cordero dies after being in hospital for over 90 days 
• SCOTUS
  • States can force faithless electors to vote for what their district picked
  • Upheld Trump admin rule allowing insurers to not offer birth control with ACA
  • Ruled Trump is not immune to requests for his taxes by NY or the House Dems
  • Ruled that about half of Oklahoma is Native American land
• Trump commuted Roger Stone’s prison sentence
• Fox News “mistakenly” cut Trump out of picture with Epstein and Maxwell for a segment
• Former Fox News host Shepard Smith joins CNBC with new evening show
• Kanye West claims he’s running for president in 2020
• Trump’s 4th of July party music
  • Bruno Mars cover by white military band
  • Save Ferris cover of Come On Eileen by a military ska band
  • Obama had the real Bruno Mars performing at his 4th of July event in 2015
• Colin Kaepernick signed first-look deal with Disney
• Classic episodes of Supermarket Sweep are on Netflix
• Comedy Central orders two new seasons of Beavis & Butthead
• CW taps Javicia Leslie for Batwoman title role
• 1619 Project will be adapted to film, TV via Oprah, Nikole Hannah-Jones, & Lionsgate
• Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com

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