Let’s Weekend #243 – Rudy’s Compromising Position

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the weird thing that Jeffrey Toobin did, the death of Quibi, and the first Murder Hornet nest that’s been found in the US.

• Intro
• What Are We Up To?
  • C: Julie and the Phantoms, old stuff, Rocket League, Fallout 76, TimeSpinner
  • T: Usual forever games Bloons TD 6, Kingdom Two Crowns, Borat
  • B: TitS SC, Kaissereich, books, watching 80s action movies. 
• Brandon’s Random Factoid
• Assholes of the Week: Lawyers can’t find parents of 545 children separated by Trump admin
  • OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to plead guilty to three federal charges
  • New rule in Texas allows social workers to turn away LGBTQ or disabled clients
  • Texas AG has fired two of the aides that reported him for bribery
• Heroes of the Week: 14 year old girl won a $25k prize for discovery leading to potential therapy for COVID-19
  • SF officials vote to pass CAREN Act to make racially-motivated 911 calls illegal
• Dumbass of the Week: Jeffrey Toobin suspended from The New Yorker, CNN after masturbating on Zoom call in election meeting for The New Yorker when he thought he was muted
• COVID-19 Dump Truck
  • 42.5 million cases WW, 1.1 million deaths, 8.6 million cases US, 224.8k deaths
  • Mitch McConnell is planning vote this week for skinny relief bill
  • AstraZeneca trial continues after volunteer dies, but was part of placebo group
• 2020 US Election Watch
  • Over 51 million people have voted already, which is setting records
  • SCOTUS split vote allows PA to count ballots received by November 6
  • Amy Coney Barrett nom. forced through committee for Sen. floor vote next week
  • Trump threw a fit over 60 Minutes interview, posts unedited video
  • DNI claims Iran behind threatening Proud Boys emails in AK & FL
  • House Reps are complaining about Biden’s use of Amtrak trains for campaign
  • Trump has a bank account in China under corporate name
  • Rudy Giuliani found in compromising position with Borat’s underage daughter
• US Justice Department indicted six Russian hackers for spree of hacks
• Justice Department and 11 states filed antitrust suit against Google
• Murder hornet nest discovered in Washington
  • The scene as people vacuumed the nest are wild
• NASA spacecraft bumps into asteroid to collect samples
• NASA taps Nokia to build a 4G cell network on the Moon
• John Oliver finally got Dansbury, CT to name sewage plant after him
• Jeff Bridges announced his Lymphoma diagnosis
• Quibi is shutting down six months after launch
• Willow sequel series is happening on Disney+
• Netflix is making more deals with anime studios in Japan and South Korea
• Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com 

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